Photo, Print, Drawing I︠A︡kutskiĭ stol. Якутский стол.
About this Item
Title
- I︠A︡kutskiĭ stol.
Other Title
- Якутский стол.
Translated Title
- Yakut Table.
Summary
- This drawing is from a collection of ethnographic sketches created in the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during the 1930s-1940s. The Yakut ASSR--informally referred to as Yakutia and known today as the Sakha Republic--covered a large region in eastern Siberia. It is the historical home of the Yakut (Sakha) people, a Turkic people who arrived in the region around the 13th century and still make up almost half of its population. This collection of sketches was created by Ivan Vasil'evich Popov (1874-1945), an artist and teacher who was born near Yakutsk and received his education in Yakutsk and Saint Petersburg. Popov was born into a family of priests who had been among the first to give sermons in the Yakut language and had taken part in the writing of a Yakut dictionary. Accordingly, some of his first works of art were icons that he painted as a seminary student. Although Popov had to work as a teacher throughout his adult life, unable to support his family through his artistic activities alone, he made a significant contribution to the documentation of Yakut material culture. In addition to recording Yakut culture in his drawings and paintings, Popov documented Yakut life in photographs and contributed to the recording of oral history and folklore. This collection of Popov's drawings depicts Yakut material culture of the 17th-20th centuries. Featured items include furniture, interiors and exteriors of dwellings, grave monuments, hats, footwear, tools, and hunting equipment. Popov's drawings are housed in the Yakutsk State Museum of the History and Culture of Northern Peoples. World Digital Library.
Names
- Popov, Ivan Vasilʹevich, born 1874, artist.
Created / Published
- I︠A︡kutii︠a︡ : [publisher not identified], 1943.
Headings
- - mebelʹ
- - Decoration and ornament
- - Furniture
- - Indigenous peoples
- - Russian Far East
- - Siberia
- - Tables
- - Wood-carving
- - Yakut (Turkic people)
- - Russian Federation
- - Sakha (Yakutiya) Republic
- - мебель
Notes
- - Stoleshnit︠s︡a takikh stolov byla obychno sʺemnoĭ dli︠a︡ udobstva transportirovki. V osnovanii stola nakhodilsi︠a︡ vydvizhnoĭ i︠a︡shchik dli︠a︡ khranenii︠a︡ stolovykh priborov i melkoĭ kukhonnoĭ utvari. Nozhki stola vytocheny v vide bali︠a︡sin.
- - Original image at: Yakutsk State Museum of the History and Culture of Northern Peoples
- - Столешница таких столов была обычно съемной для удобства транспортировки. В основании стола находился выдвижной ящик для хранения столовых приборов и мелкой кухонной утвари. Ножки стола выточены в виде балясин.
Medium
- 1 drawing : watercolor and pencil on paper ; 17.8 x 26.5 cm.
Source Collection
- Yakut Material Culture in Ethnographic Sketches of the 1920s-1940s
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2018693610
Online Format
- image