Vys tukhty carved calendar (Christian calendar)

Saami

Arkhangelsk province, district

19th century

Wood

РЭМ 1507-22

Vys tukhty carved calendar (Christian calendar). That is a wooden square wooden block: each face of the calendar is divided by an uneven slit into three parts according to the number of months. Notches are made on the part denoting a month.. Carved on the bar faces are 47 symbols in the form of crosses or encircled crosses. On the part of the calendar with the month of September, the letter "C" is carved what is meaning that the beginning of the year according to this calendar falls on September. To use the calendar, it was rotated counterclockwise. Abstract by O.G. Baranova