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Photo, Print, Drawing Rezʹba na shkatulke. Резьба на шкатулке.

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Title

  • Rezʹba na shkatulke.

Other Title

  • Резьба на шкатулке.

Translated Title

  • Carving on a Box.

Summary

  • This drawing is from a collection of ethnographic sketches created in the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during the 1930s-1940s. The Yakut ASSR--informally referred to as Yakutia and known today as the Sakha Republic--covered a large region in eastern Siberia. It is the historical home of the Yakut (Sakha) people, a Turkic people who arrived in the region around the 13th century and still make up almost half of its population. This collection of sketches was created by Ivan Vasil'evich Popov (1874-1945), an artist and teacher who was born near Yakutsk and received his education in Yakutsk and Saint Petersburg. Popov was born into a family of priests who had been among the first to give sermons in the Yakut language and had taken part in the writing of a Yakut dictionary. Accordingly, some of his first works of art were icons that he painted as a seminary student. Although Popov had to work as a teacher throughout his adult life, unable to support his family through his artistic activities alone, he made a significant contribution to the documentation of Yakut material culture. In addition to recording Yakut culture in his drawings and paintings, Popov documented Yakut life in photographs and contributed to the recording of oral history and folklore. This collection of Popov's drawings depicts Yakut material culture of the 17th-20th centuries. Featured items include furniture, interiors and exteriors of dwellings, grave monuments, hats, footwear, tools, and hunting equipment. Popov's drawings are housed in the Yakutsk State Museum of the History and Culture of Northern Peoples. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Popov, Ivan Vasilʹevich, born 1874, artist.

Created / Published

  • I︠A︡kutii︠a︡ : [publisher not identified], [date of publication not identified]

Headings

  • -  edinorogi
  • -  lʹvy
  • -  grifony
  • -  gornye kozly
  • -  mifologii︠a︡
  • -  derevo
  • -  Boxes
  • -  Decoration and ornament
  • -  Goats
  • -  Griffins
  • -  Indigenous peoples
  • -  Lions
  • -  Mythology
  • -  Russian Far East
  • -  Siberia
  • -  Unicorns
  • -  Wood-carving
  • -  Yakut (Turkic people)
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Sakha (Yakutiya) Republic
  • -  единороги
  • -  львы
  • -  грифоны
  • -  горные козлы
  • -  мифология
  • -  дерево

Notes

  • -  Izobrazhena stenka derevi︠a︡nnoĭ korobki, shkatulki ili nebolʹshogo sunduchka. Derevi︠a︡nnui︠u︡ korobku sdelal i︠a︡kutskiĭ master Stepan Fedoseev, krestnyĭ otet︠s︡ I.V. Popova.
  • -  Original image at: Yakutsk State Museum of the History and Culture of Northern Peoples
  • -  Изображена стенка деревянной коробки, шкатулки или небольшого сундучка. Деревянную коробку сделал якутский мастер Степан Федосеев, крестный отец И.В. Попова.

Medium

  • 1 drawing : watercolor and pencil on paper ; 17.8 x 26.7 cm.

Source Collection

  • Yakut Material Culture in Ethnographic Sketches of the 1920s-1940s

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018693577

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Popov, Ivan VasilʹEvich, Born 1874, Artist. Rezʹba Na Shkatulke. Republic Russian Federation Yakutiya Sakha, 1894. [I︠A︡kutii︠a︡: publisher not identified, date of publication not identified] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018693577/.

APA citation style:

Popov, I. V. (1894) Rezʹba Na Shkatulke. Republic Russian Federation Yakutiya Sakha, 1894. [I︠A︡kutii︠a︡: publisher not identified, date of publication not identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018693577/.

MLA citation style:

Popov, Ivan VasilʹEvich, Born 1874, Artist. Rezʹba Na Shkatulke. [I︠A︡kutii︠a︡: publisher not identified, date of publication not identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2018693577/>.