Siberian Federal University

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Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2024 17 (7)

Authors

Shulgina, Olga M.

Contact information

Shulgina, Olga M.: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography RAS Saint- Petersburg State University St. Petersburg, Russian Federation;

Keywords

Committee for the Support of the Peoples of the Northern Regions; Research Institute of the Art Industry; V. G. Bogoraz; A. L. Gorbunkov; walrus ivory-carving craft; Chukchi and Asian Eskimo walrus ivory-carving art

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of transition from craftsmanship to art and the establishing of full-year walrus ivory-carving workshops on the territory of the Chukchi Peninsula. The main thesis of this paper is the question of the nature of the emergence of permanent bone-carving workshops in Chukotka. Relying on unpublished archival sources, as well as on previously published works, the author comes to the conclusion that ivory- carving workshops in Chukotka were not created spontaneously in the early 1930s. On the contrary, such a phenomenon was preceded by a long preparatory stage, which implied a comprehensive preliminary study and fixation of the material and spiritual cultures of the peoples of Chukotka, collection and accumulation of samples of items made by local Chukchi craftsmen. Consideration of the issue from this perspective, relying on factual material, makes it possible to assess most objectively the contribution to the formation and development of Chukchi and Asian Eskimo walrus ivory-carving art not only by art historians and professional artists, but also by ethnographers and their leading institutions

Pages

1386–1396

EDN

WBNOTO

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/153230

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