Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project Collection
Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Extent:
4.4 Terabytes (4050 videos, 1301 photographs, born digital)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Terabytes
Oral history
Digital photographs
Digital moving image formats
Place:
Tibet, Plateau of
Qinghai (province)
Gansu (province)
Sichuan (province)
Date:
2016
Scope and Contents:
The Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project collection contains 4.4 terabytes of born digital video and photographic material collected by four teams in four traditionally Tibetan counties in three provinces in Western China.
The materials document traditional nomadic life: herding, gender roles, the making of household items like baskets and textiles, clothing, games, foodways, religious events and celebrations, traditional tools, and the history, social life, and struggles of each community as expressed through interviews with community members.
Arrangement:
The files in this collection are arranged in chronological order within four series, named for the four fieldworkers or fieldworker teams and containing their respective video and photographic documentation. The four series are as follows: (1) Lhamo Drolma, (2) Puhua, (3) rGyalthar and Nathaniel Sims, and (4) Wuqi.
Biographical / Historical:
The Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project holds documentation from five different culturally nomadic communities in Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan Provinces, China. Starting in 2016, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage contracted local researchers, filmmakers, community members, and scholars to document aspects of current nomadic life, including customs, tools, traditional knowledge, and ways of life.
All materials have been shared with the originating communities.
Shared Stewardship of Collections:
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://doi.org/10.25573/data.21771155.
Provenance:
Materials in the Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project Collection were created in 2016 by local researchers, filmmakers, community members, and scholars Llamo Drolma, Nathaniel Sims, Puhua, rGyalthar, Tsehua, and Wuqi. Their work was supported by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. After the fieldworkers completed their projects, their documentation, associated metadata, and trip reports were acquired by the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives in the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in 2017.
Restrictions:
Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Tibetan silver, gold and bronze objects and the aesthetics of animals in the era before empire cross-cultural reverberations on the Tibetan Plateau and soundings from other parts of Eurasia John Vincent Bellezza
The geological evolution of Tibet : report of the 1985 Royal Society-Academia Sinica Geotraverse of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, led by Chang Chengfa, Robert M. Shackleton, F.R.S., John F. Dewey, F.R.S., and Yin Jixiang / [editor, Peigi, Wallace]
Author:
Royal Society-Academia Sinica Geotraverse of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau (1985) Search this
Jing li yuan shi : Qing Zang Gaoyuan di qu wen wu diao cha sui bi = Experiencing primality : a field impression of cultural relics in the pasturing areas of Qinghai Province / Tang Huisheng zhu
Title:
经历原始 : 青藏高原地区文物调查随笔 = Experiencing primality : a field impression of cultural relics in the pasturing areas of Qinghai Province / 汤惠生著
Experiencing primality : a field impression of cultural relics in the pasturing areas of Qinghai Province
Qing Zang Gaoyuan di qu wen wu diao cha sui bi
青藏高原地区文物调查随笔
Field impression of cultural relics in the pasturing areas of Qinghai Province
Hengduan shan qu zhen jun / Zhongguo ke xue yuan Qing Zang gao yuan zong he ke xue kao cha dui ; zhu chi dan wei, Zhongguo ke xue yuan Kunming zhi wu yan jiu suo, Zhongguo ke xue yuan wei sheng wu yan jiu suo ; [zhu bian, Zang Mu]
