One more Koryak painting

Marija Afanasevna Tyna
12 x 9 inches, oil on canvas, 2018

Marija Afanaseva Uičan is a Koryak woman who "works in the jaranga (a tent where the Koryak live while in the tundra.)" [1] She sings two personal songs on the CD Kamchatka: Tambours de danse de l'extreme-orient Sibérien recorded by Henry Lecomte in Tymlat (in Kamchatka in Russia's far east). Lecomte publishes a photograph of Marija Afanasevna Tyna in the booklet of the CD but Tyna is not represented in the recordings. It's possible therefore that Uičan, who accompanies herself with a jajar drum, is the same person as Tyna, who is also holding a jajar drum (the Koryak have Russian and Koryak names). All but one photograph in the booklet has been rendered in paint now as five tracks from the CD are listed in the top 100 this year.