GOLDS  , a Mongolo-Tatar

people, living on the Lower Amur in south-eastern Siberia . Their chief settlements are on the right bank of the Amur and along the Sungari and Usuri rivers . In physique they are typically Mongolic . Like the Chinese they wear a pigtail, and from them, too, have learnt the art of silk embroidery . The Golds live almost entirely on fish, and are excellent boatmen . They keep large herds of swine and dogs, which live, like themselves, on fish . Geese, wild duck, eagles, bears, wolves and foxes are also kept in menageries . There is much reverence paid to the eagles, and hence the Manchus call the Golds " Eaglets." Their religion is Shamanism . See L . Schrenck, Die Volker des Amurlandes (St Petersburg, 1891) ; Laufer, " The Amoor Tribes," in American Anthropologist (New York, 1900); E . G . Ravenstein, The Russians on the Amur (1861) .