Photo, Print, Drawing Detalʹ i︠a︡kutskoĭ konovi︠a︡zi. Деталь якутской коновязи.
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Title
- Detalʹ i︠a︡kutskoĭ konovi︠a︡zi.
Other Title
- Деталь якутской коновязи.
Translated Title
- Detail of a Yakut Post for Tying Horses.
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], [date of publication not identified]
Headings
- - sėrgė
- - navershie
- - konevodstvo
- - rezʹba
- - ornament
- - Decoration and ornament
- - Horses
- - Indigenous peoples
- - Russian Far East
- - Siberia
- - Wood-carving
- - Yakut (Turkic people)
- - Russian Federation
- - Sakha (Yakutiya) Republic
- - сэргэ
- - навершие
- - коневодство
- - резьба
- - орнамент
Notes
- - Izobrazhena verkhni︠a︡i︠a︡ chastʹ i︠a︡kutskoĭ konovi︠a︡zi. Navershie sėrgė sdelano v vide pripli︠u︡snutogo diska, nizhni︠u︡i︠u︡ chastʹ kotorogo okruzhaet venchik iz konskikh golov.
- - Original image at: Yakutsk State Museum of the History and Culture of Northern Peoples
- - Изображена верхняя часть якутской коновязи. Навершие сэргэ сделано в виде приплюснутого диска, нижнюю часть которого окружает венчик из конских голов.
Medium
- 1 drawing : pencil and ink on paper ; 27 x 18 cm.
Source Collection
- Yakut Material Culture in Ethnographic Sketches of the 1920s-1940s
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2018693615
Online Format
- image