whorls with a diameter of 3.5–6 cm inscribed with Old Turkic script were discovered in Baikalia. Petri studied the items, considering them to be Kurumchi products, and published an article about them in 1922. An assistant and student of Petri, Gavriil Ksenofontov, characterized the findings as random discoveries found by non-archaeologists. As of 2019 they are reportedly lost and only photographs remain. Narin-Kunta spindlewhorl The first spindlewhorl was found outside the village of Narin-Kunta. It was discovered by an educator, O. A. Monastyreva, in their garden bed. This location became the principal dig for the Kurumchi culture during the 1910s. Donner and Räsänen presented a translation which was subsequently accepted by most researchers. Shokhtoy spindlewhorl The second spindlewhorl was discovered by farmers plowing a field near Shokhtoy. As it was found by happen-stance outside of an orderly archaeological dig Ksenofontov didn't consider the Kurumchi as the probable creators of the item. Donner and Räsänen were only able to distinguish some of the eroded characters. They offered "the fifth of the snowy month" and "the fifth month of the arqar year" as partial translations. Later Ksenofontov, Malov, Orkun, and Bazin offered their own interpretations of the partial text. In 2019 Tishin made a comprehensive translation. Husbandry Despite the limited pastures of Baikalia, Petri conceived that the Kurumchi were pastoralists. Cattle and horse bone fragments have been recovered and both were common subjects in cliff artwork attributed to them. Equestrian herds were speculated to originate from the Yenisei steppe and not the Mongolian Plateau. The appearance of Bactrian camels in supposed Kurumchi artwork made Okladnikov speculate about possible connections to the steppe cultures of Inner Asia. Agriculture According to Petri, the Kurumchi created fortified places of habitation in bountiful meadows and pastures or strategic positions overlooking valleys. Their settlements were inhabited either permanently or seasonally. Garden beds placed outside ancient stockades in the Angara watershed nearby Kulakova were claimed by Okladnikov to be Kurumchi constructions, who further considered them the first society practice agriculture in Baikalia. Irrigation was considered to have been practiced to bolster the productivity of certain pastures. One surviving series of ancient ditches is 4.6 km outside Ust-Ordynsky starting near Ulan-Zola-Tologoy (). Two 5 km long irrigation canals were placed 100-150m apart and dug up to 1 meter deep. Secondary lines were made off of the main lines to water additional fields. From the waterfalls of the Idyga ()