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The Cultural
Heritage

Kovaleva Maria Aleksandrovna, the Khanty craftswoman.
The photo author: A. Arefyeva. 2009.

clothes, and adornments” were written.
The detailed list of this subdivision was
not left by the scientist (G. M. Dmitriev-
Sadovnikov) in his notes. However, in
the first book of the arrival for 1976 “the
Evenki shaman’s vest ‘from old arrivals’
decorated with glass beads and metal
plates’” is registered under # 8 (old # 89).
Unfortunately, under plan checks in 2009,
the very vest was not found and written
off the collection. The second object is
glass beads belt under the number YNM-
79 which came into museum funds in 1950.
Due to the brevity of the object legend,
there is no additional information, apart
from this object belonging to the Nenets
culture. Next exhibit made of glass beads
are ear-rings having entered the museum
fund thanks to act #83 dated 7 April 1971.
Since 1980-s, the mass arrival of glass beads

glass beads from China became widely and topical direction for the academic
accessible for all willing craftswomen. study and museum description. In Yamal-
According to the informers, “the Chinese Nenets District Museum and Exhibition
glass beads win by the diversity of colours, Complex named after I.S. Shemanovskiy,
size, and price” [21. P. 21]. the beginning of glass beads collection is
Thus, glass beads import tradition related to 1906. It is the period when the
is deeply rooted and its origin has been ethnographic collection formation laid the
stipulated for several historical epochs by foundation for the museum. According to
cultural, trade, and diplomatic relations the endured G. M. Dmitriev-Sadovnikov’s
of the Western Siberia’s native population description [24. P. 2], the first museum
with the surrounding world. collection was written by G. I. Arteev in
Glass beads and their different four books and four copybooks. In the very
application in the local small in numbers “1 department, 2 subdivision consisting of
Northern peoples’s life are very interesting 80 items”, “the belongings of domestic life, YANM-9838. The narrow necklace. Master-Kovaleva M. A.
The author of the photo: M.Samburov, 2017.

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