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The old Yakut birch-bark yurt

Sbornik Museia Antropologii i Ethnografii • X • Published In 1949 • Pages: 50-74

By: Popov, A. A., Wise, Sheldon.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

Popov has based his information on the Yakut birch-bark yurt upon his own observations made in the Vilyuysk District in 1924 and upon the collections of the Museum of the Ethnographic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. His work is a descriptive study. The birch-bark yurt is discussed as a memorial of Yakut ancient history, a vestige of a more southern culture transplanted in the north. Most of the article, however, is concerned with descriptive data on the yurt, its construction and its plan, and there is a wealth of information on the decorative designs found in the yurt which has not been so well dealth with anywhere else. The article includes graphics consisting of drawings and photographs of the structures and decorative designs employed by the Yakuts in their houses.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Dwellings

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Yakut

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

1997

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.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Ruth Heffner ; 1950-1956

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1924

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

not specified

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Viyuysk District, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation

NotesAdditional notes

A. A. Popov

Translation from the Russian of: Starinnaia IAkutskaia berestianaia iurta.

The original Russian text is not included

Translated for the Human Relations Area Files by Sheldon Wise

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Yakut (Turkick people)