Tsagaanshuhert Munkhtsetseg , Jantsan Gundegmaa, Marucya and Arildii Lhamsuren engaged in a traditional yet contemporary Mongol women’s exchange of their personal snuff bottles (in this instance made of white jade and red coral) as an preliminary greeting ritual to meeting from which further dialogical exchanges will flow. Delgeruun Choira, Dundgovi, Mongolia. 12 August 2010. Photograph: C.Pleteshner
Tsagaanshuhert Munkhtsetseg , Jantsan Gundegmaa, Marucya and Arildii Lhamsuren engaged in a traditional yet contemporary Mongol women’s exchange of their personal snuff bottles (in this instance made of white jade and red coral) as an preliminary greeting ritual to meeting from which further dialogical exchanges will flow. Delgeruun Choira, Dundgovi, Mongolia. 12 August 2010. Photograph: C.Pleteshner