page_title: Nanai people
section_title: Traditional lifestyle and culture
hierarchical_section_title: Nanai people / Traditional lifestyle and culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Goldes hunter on skis on ice floe, with spear and rifle Physical description: 1 photographic print&#160;: gelatin silver&#160;; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. Notes: Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).; Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949.; Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative.
context_page_description: The Nanai people are a Tungusic people of East Asia and the Russian Far East, who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang, Songhuajiang and Wusuli River on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Nanai were the Jurchens of northernmost Manchuria.
  The Nanai/Hezhe language belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic languages. According to the 2010 census there were 12,003 Nanai in Russia.
context_section_description: Some of the earliest first-hand accounts of the Nanai people in the European languages belong to the French Jesuit geographers travelling on the Ussuri and the Amur in 1709. According to them, the native people living on the Ussuri and on the Amur above the mouth of the Dondon River (which falls into the Amur between today's Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur) were known as Yupi Tartars (fish-skin tartars), while the name of the people living on the Dondon and on the Amur below Dondon was transcribed by the Jesuits into French as Ketching.
  The latter name may be the French transcription of the reported self-name of the Nanai of the lower Amur, [xədʑən],  which was also applied to the closely related Ulch people,
  According to the Jesuits, the language of the "Yupi" people seemed to occupy an intermediate position between the Manchu language and that of the "Ketching"(Chinese: 盖靑, gàiqīng).  people; some level of communication between the Yupi and the Ketching was possible.
  Some Han Chinese are said to have founded clan subdivisions among the Nanai and the Nanai have absorbed Manchu and Jurchens. Nanai culture is influenced by Han Chinese and Manchu culture and the Nanai share a myth in common with southern Chinese.
  The Nanais at first fought against the Nurhaci and the Manchus, led by their own Nanai Hurka chief Sosoku before surrendering to Hongtaiji in 1631. Mandatory shaving of the front of all male heads was imposed on Amur peoples conquered by the Qing like the Nanai people. The Amur peoples already wore the queue on the back of their heads but did not shave the front until the Qing subjected them and ordered them to shave.
caption: Goldes hunter on skis on ice floe, with spear and rifle, 1895
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