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wares into museum collection has started.
The whole museum collection of glass
beads items consists of belts, false plaits,
stripes and collars for clothes, bags, needle-
cases, bracelets, earrings, and pectorals.
Each object is unique for a museum worker
but I would like to focus on female neck
adornments and pectorals of the indigenous
peoples of Yamal’s (Obdor in the past)
North.
The Northern Khanty called glass beads
as sak, syek, the Southern ones – keu, kev
that means “stone”. The connection between
the stone and glass beads demonstrated
in this way let many ethnographers
deduce about the transference of stone
sacral functions to glass beads. Folk and
ethnographic materials showed that clothes
beaded adornment was known in all groups
of the Ob Ugrian. Besides, it is noted that
clothes beaded adornment is typical for the
Khanty, to a large extent [17. P. 8].
In the traditional Khanty culture, beaded
adornments are divided into the embroidered
and woven ones, according to their technical
performance. Regarding the technology and
patterns of the disposition of the embroidered
with glass beads and woven adornments on
the clothes, O. M. Ryndina drew a conclusion
about the primacy of the beaded embroidery
over the weaving [14. P. 221]. Beaded
embroidery decorates shoulder clothes from
cloth and fabric, headwear, female leather
shoes, belts, plains adornments, pectorals,
mittens, and hunting semi-masks. Cloth
stripes, which were fixed to the clothes later,
were often embroidered with glass beads.
Removable adornments (the neck, chest, and
plains ones) were woven with glass beads.
Woven beaded stripes were sewn on the YANM-1090. Master-Communications A. The author of the photo:
shoulder clothes, the belts, and fur footwear Emergence: the M. Samburov, 2017.
with vamps. They were also fixed to the
lower edge of a fur female bonnet, kerchief, premises of this also bring out the understanding of the

and to fabric belt ends. adornment appearance connection between glass beads and
The tradition of glass beads use for stones, which they vested with “magic
decorating clothes remains among the are more likely linked sense”. Initially the Nenets, in contrast to
Khanty and Mansi even now. Decorating to the decoration the Khanty and Mansi, applied glass beads
bought clothes of a modern type with “pointwise”, i.e. glass beads were sewn
glass beads, the Khanty and Mansi give it tradition of the separately in the important places of a
ethnic specifics in this way, including into opening, neck, and traditional costume serving as an amulet.
traditional culture objects. So, for example, glass beads were sewn on
Under V. Islavin, the interest to glass collar of the Finno- fur panties toes and a child’s belt. Later
beads is noticed among the Nenets and Ugrian peoples’ on glass beads got widely spread, thanks
Finno-Ugric peoples as well [6. P. 115- to the influence of the Nenets neighbours:
116]. In the ethnographic literature, topwear the Khanty and Mansi. Fur wares (hats,

regarding the Samoyed culture, one can fur coats, and footwear), bags started to be

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