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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



BURIAT MAN AND FOUR WOMEN ASSOCIATES 











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Photographs hy D. A. Foster 



A GROUP OF BURIATS NEAR C1TTTA, EASTERN SIBERIA 



The Buriats arc a broad-shouldered, stalwart people of nomadic tendencies. They arc 



noted for their devotion to their horses, and when a Buriat chief dies his steed is tied to a 



stake at his tfrave, there to die by starvation; hut the thrifty heirs usually confine the horse 



by slender cords in order that it may break away. Note the memhers of the American 



ditionary Force to Siberia in the background. 



