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Photograph: Chukchee

Title:

Photograph:

Ethnic groups:

Chukchee

Territory:

Primorsky Oblast, Anadyr district

Date:

1912

Collectors-person:
Sokolnikov Nikolai P.
Photographer:
Dimensions:

12 x 17

Number:

РЭМ 3949-22

Annotation:

Young women from the Primorsky Chukchi group are dressed in kamleiki (clothing of a blind cut) made of multi-colored cotton fabrics. The kamleyka was worn over a fur overall or kukhlyanka, which made it possible to protect the fur clothing from moisture. Each woman is wearing braided beaded jewelry, which is considered a means of protection from evil spirits - the culprits of diseases.