Svetlana Valerievna Buraeva,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Olga Vladimirovna Buraeva,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cultural Heritage of the indigenous peoples of Siberia: the Evenkian Ornament
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-2-12
One of the most important components of the historical and cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of Siberia is the ornament on wood, bone, metal, fabric objects of material culture. Based on visual materials from the personal archive of the famous ethnographer P.P. Khoroshikh, the article examines the features of the ornament of the Evenks of the Lower Tunguska as an integral part of the ethnocultural heritage of the peoples of Siberia. The source for the study was the materials of the Lower Tunguska Evenk expedition of 1930 from the P.P. Horoshikh personal archive from the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For the first time, a unique source was introduced into scientific circulation – the original handwritten collection-notebook of ornaments copied by P.P. Khoroshikh in negative print technique. The materials represent the most authentic copies of traditional ornaments used by the Evenks of Nizhnyaya Tunguska at the end of the 19th – first third of the 20th century. Authentic ornaments are accompanied by the scientist's comments, containing indications of localization (camp), material, age of execution, craftsmen, in some cases – colors. The notebook contains 106 images from 16 camps in Lower Tunguska. Two groups of images in the notebook were revealed: ornament on articles made of bone and antlers of wild and domestic deer; ornament on wood products. The typology of ornament motives on objects made of wood and bone of the local group of Evenks is created. The most common geometric patterns are: dots; straight, broken, zigzag, mesh-intersecting lines; circles, rhombuses, polyhedrons, stars, crosses, spirals. Of the border motifs, triangles, zigzags, corners, squares set at an angle, cruciform patterns, simple arcs and with additional elements, stripes of squares and three-forked patterns of the Eskimo type are marked.
Publishing: 28/04/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 09/03/2021
How to cite: Buraeva S.V., Buraeva O.V. Cultural Heritage of the Indigenous Peoples of Siberia: the Evenkian Ornament // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 2 (16), pp. 140–153. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-2-12.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2021
The article was prepared within the framework of the state task (project “Written traditions of the peoples of the Baikal region in the context of the historical and cultural heritage of Russia and Inner Asia”, No. 121031000263-3; project “Russia and Inner Asia: dynamics of geopolitical, socio-economic and intercultural interaction (17th–21th centuries)”, No. 121031000243-5).
Keywords: cultural heritage; Evenks; ornament; visual materials; P.P. Khoroshikh; Lower Tunguska