Fish skin products as a factor in preserving the ethnic identity of the Hezhe people
Annotation
The technology of
making fish skin by the Hezhe people is a unique technique of material production that is
currently being actively reconstructed in order to preserve the traditional culture of China's
ethnic minorities. It is known that the Hezhe people are related to the Russian Nanai people, a
small indigenous ethnic group of the Russian Far East that lives along the banks of the Amur
River and its tributaries, the Ussuri and Sungari Rivers. In China, they are known as the Hezhe
people. Fishing and hunting technology is an element of the traditional culture of the peoples of
the northeaste...