11.12.2023
Natalia Shabelskaya's collection contains about 250 monuments of the traditional culture of the Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples of the Middle Volga region: Mordvins, Mari, Chuvash and Tatars. Most of the artifacts were in use in the middle - second half of the 19th century over the territory of the Kazan, Simbirsk, Penza and Tambov Provinces.
The Tatar collection (REM 5539) includes a significant number of various decorations: sashes, collar fasteners, bibs, braids, bracelets, earrings, buckles, clasps, as well as various jewelry plaques and buttons. There are also costume items: three unique sleeveless camisoles and two kalfaks - women's headdresses, one of which is embroidered with chenille, and the second is decorated with rosettes and feathers made in the ear technique. In addition, the ends of towels and borders of sheets, richly decorated in different techniques (embroidery, patterned weaving), are quite widely represented, which with a high degree of probability indicates that they belong to the wedding complex.
The Chuvash collection (REM 5605) includes examples of embroidery (for example, on the hem or chest of shirts), belt pendants, towel ends, as well as details of women's headdresses and several decorations: sashes, beaded shoulder straps, etc. Of undoubted value are artifacts related to the subject series of the wedding complex - scarves, veils of the bride, matchmaker's caftan.
Ethnographic monuments of the Mari (REM 5606) are elements of costume (three women's shirts and a wedding caftan), a detail of a composite headdress, as well as samples of embroidery for clothing and headdresses. A women's wedding caftan made of green cloth is a truly priceless museum item. Such exhibits in museum collections are few and far between.
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