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The costume of an Enets Shaman
Studies in Siberian shamanism, Arctic Institute of North America, anthropology of the North: translations from Russian sources • (4) • Published In 1963 • Pages: 124-156
By: Prokofʹeva, E. D. (Ekaterina Dmitrievna).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a detailed description of the clothing and paraphernalia of a female Enets shaman, Savone by name, a member of the Bay group who lived at the time of the study near the community of Potapovskoye-Igarka in northern Siberia, with occasional indicated relationships to the garments worn by other Samoyed shamans, primarily among the Selkup, Nganasan and Nenets. The dress and related artifacts—parka, mittens, breastpiece, eyeband, shamans cap, boots, mat (platform), drum and drumsticks—were acquired by G. D. Verbov and donated by him to the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, Academy of Sciences in the U.S.S. R. in Leningrad and now comprise collection No. 5706 of the museum. Although the bulk of the material in this source deals with an intensive study of these items, there is some incidental information on the role of the shaman in the society, division of shamans into three separate categories—the budtode who had the power to contact celestial spirits, the dyano who defended the people from malicious spirits and the savode who communicated with the world of the dead—the location and identification of the Enets, and finally, their present position under the Soviet state. The explanation to the footnotes appearing in the text will be found only in category 116, pp. 155-156, since they have been zeroed out as a whole, being subsumed under the category or categories in the text to which they refer. Additional substantive categories have been added to these notes (in brackets) only when their content presents data which differ from the main body of the text.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Samoyed
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- North Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1968
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ye. D. Prokofyeva
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65071263
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoyeds