Bravina Rozalia
Biographic Data
| ID | 47418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bravina Rozalia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bravina |
| FAMILY NAME | Rozalia |
| SIGNATURE | ROZALIA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4902-8288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Unusual Bronze Figurine from the Samartai Museum, Yakutia: The “Thing-in-Itself” and Semantic Content
В работе представлены результаты исследования уникального бронзового идола — крылатого медведя с изображениями антропоморфной личины и головы медведя на груди. Артефакт был найден в Хангаласском улусе Якутии и хранится в музее «Самартай» с. Кердём. Поиск аналогий данному предмету привел к целому кругу культур раннего железного века и Средневековья в Предуралье, Приуралье и Западной Сибири. Подобные полиэйконические образы были характерны для куль…
An Unusual Bronze Figurine from the Samartai Museum, Yakutia: The “Thing-in-Itself” and Semantic Content
This article presents a rare bronze idol—a winged bear with an anthropomorphic mask and a bear head on the chest. The artifact was found in the Khangalas Ulus (district) of Yakutia and is kept in the Samartai Museum in the village of Kerdem. The search for parallels led to a wide range of Early Iron Age and medieval cultures of the Western Urals and Western Siberia. Similar composite images are common among cast ritual items relating to the Pecho…
Yakut elite of the 17th century: The grave of toyon Mazary Bozekov
The article is dedicated to the study of the burial complex of the Khangalassky ancestor (toyon) Mazary Bozekov, who was one of the most prominent leaders of the Yakut people in the 17th century, and who had an audience with Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich in Moscow. The grave of Mazary was excavated in the Isteekh Byraan locality of the Khangalassky District of Yakutia in 1933 by the expedition of G.V. Ksenofontov and M.N. Kovinin, however, its exact lo…
“Dance of the Deceased Brides”: Occasional Practices in Yakut Funeral Rites
Статья вводит в научный оборот неопубликованные ранее фольклорные тексты об окказиональных обрядах якутов, связанных с традиционными представлениями о смерти и воскрешении/продлении жизни. Первая группа источников содержит предания вилюйских якутов о трехкратном перезахоронении дочери матерью-шаманкой. С целью вернуть ее в мир живых мать ежегодно устраивала летний праздник ысыах, где умершая, поддерживаемая подругами, «участвовала» в ритуальном т…
“Syuge-balta tyl”: Axe symbol in traditional Yakut culture
Актуальность предлагаемого исследования состоит в отсутствии специальных работ, посвященных символике топора в традиционной культуре якутов. Топор как предмет сугубо утилитарной сферы «вещного мира» имел несколько видов: топоры-чеканы, топор чохороон, балта, тэрэгэр сюгэ, басымньы сюгэ. Первые, по всей вероятности, использовались в качестве боевого оружия, а топоры чохороон имели универсальное (боевое и рабочее) значение, что подтверждается данны…
Mammoth bone collecting as a traditional occupation of the indigenous population of the East Siberian Arctic (17th - early 20th c)
The paper is concerned with the history of collecting and trade of fossil mammoth bones as a traditional occupa-tion of the indigenous population of the East Siberian Arctic in the 17th - early 20th c. For a long time the indigenous peoples of the North practiced individual collecting, incidental in the course of hunting, of fossil bones for their house-hold needs. Meanwhile, archaic ideas about the mammoth as a sacred chthonic animal served as a…
Axes of the Middle Ages and Modern Times of Yakutia: Typology and Interpretation
Xiongnu-Xianbei layer in the Yakut Culture
The aim of the article is to systematize and conceptualize the similarities between the paleo-ethnographic culture of the Yakuts and the Xiongnu of Central Asia, and to assess the possible ways of their appearance and incorporation into the new environment. In addition to the published data on this topic, the main source for the preparation of this paper was authors' field archaeological material, collected during many years of expeditions. Among…
Tamgas of the 19th and Early 20th Century Yakuts (Sakha)
The article deals with tamga symbols which played a role in the socio-economic life and culture of the Central, Vilyuisk and Northern local groups of the Yakuts since the lineage-based society up to the early twentieth century. Tamgas were marks to identify kinship and social status, property, enjoyment and dispose of the owner’s property, as well as sacral symbols of religious beliefs and practices of the Yakuts. Tamga marks were used to denote …
Birch bark in the funeral rite of the Yakuts: A case-study of the Uchugei-Yuryakh burial (15th-17th cc)
The Uchugei-Yuryakh birch-bark burial, radiocarbon dated to 1480-1640 cal AD, was discovered in the southern part of the Tuymaada valley, located in the basin of the Middle Lena River, one of the largest rivers in North-Eastern Siberia. This region is traditionally regarded as the area where the most important events of the Yakut history were taking place over many centuries, and as the area associated with the formation of the Yakut ethnic cultu…
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
Якутский сложносоставной лук из фондов Тойбохойского музея DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2020.48.3.099-106 Р.И. Бравина, В.М. Дьяконов Институт гуманитарных исследований и проблем малочисленных народов Севера СО РАН ул. Петровского, 1, Якутск, 677027, Россия Статья вводит в научный оборот уникальный сложносоставной лук центрально-азиатского типа, который хранится в Тойбохойском краеведческом музее Сунтарского улуса Якутии. В работе приводятся информаци…
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
We give the fi rst description of an unusual composite bow of the Central Asian type, owned by the Toybokhoy Museum in the Suntarsky District of Yakutia, and provide information about its discovery. We foc us on the details and structural peculiarities of the specimen, and note that this refl ex composite bow differs in terms of construction and technology from those of the Northe rn type used by the Yakuts in the 17th to 19th centuries. It resem…
Frozen graves of Yakutia, a chronological sequence
Distribution, cultural and chronological attribution of frozen graves of Yakutia between the beginning of 17th and end of 19th century. The funerary rites and the artefacts allow to differentiate four chrono-cultural periods (before 1700 AD, from 1700 to 1750 AD, from 1750 to 1800 AD and after 1800 AD) which could be associated with historical events: opening of the trading post of Nertchinsk, expansion of the Kangalasky clan, economic collapse, …
Tribes «which Became Wind: Autochthonous Substrate in Ethnocultural Genesis of the Yakuts Revisited
The study of the origin of the Yakuts focuses on the ethnic history of their alien Turkic-Mongolian ancestors. Issues of mutual ethnocultural influence of local and alien ethnic groups and identification of autochthonous tribes who took part in formation of the Yakut people are not fully researched. Yakut legends mention the tribes «which became wind», Khara-Sagyly, the mysterious «long-headed» Sakha, the bellicose Tumats/Jirikinei, etc. The ques…
A new old hypothesis of the origin of the Yakuts (on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of A.A. Savvin, a specialist in folklore, ethnographer, and local historian)
A.A. Savvin (1896–1951) was one of the first Yakut ethnographers and folklore specialists who left huge scientific heritage of which only a small article was published during his lifetime. The Manuscript collection of IHRISN of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science keeps his personal collection consisting of about 100 items with a total amount of more than 500 printed pages. The guiding idea of his works was the question of the or…
The Woman's Burial of Atlasovskoe-2 of the Xvii Century in Central Yakutia: Results of a Complex Research
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A Medieval Yakut Burial Near Lake Atlasovskoye of the 14th–15th Centuries: An Anthropological Study
The burial near Lake Atlasovskoye, Yakutia, is one of the earliest Yakut burials, dating back to the 14th or 15th centuries and associated with the medieval Kulun-Atakh culture. Initially, its age was assessed by the comparative typological method based on artifacts, and later а radiocarbon estimate was generated, suggesting that the burial dates to the early stage of the Kulun-Atakh culture. Its highly unusual feature is that the individual was …
Early Yakut Burials of the Fourteenth-Seventeenth Centuries: New Data on the Origin of the Yakuts (Sakha)
The Kulun-Atakh archeological culture of the Sakha [Yakut] people is described on the basis of burials dated to the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. This is a period before the arrival of Cossacks, when the Sakha were first practicing livestock herding in the vast territories of what is today the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Recent dating techniques combined with new discoveries have made possible multidisciplinary research on Sakha origins
Comprehensive Study of the Early Yakut Sergelyakh Burial of the Xv - Beginning of the Xvi Centuries
The paper presents a comprehensive study of graves which relate to rare burial sites of the early stage of ethnic history of the Yakuts. The burial belongs to an equestrian warrior. It is confirmed by the findings of the horse harness and fragments of weapons, including a part of a Central Asian composite bow which is unique to the Yakuts, arrowheads and a blade of palma (Siberian pole weapon). The vertebral pathologies and morphological features…
The Ritually Disturbed Burials of Yakuts (Xvii-Xviii Сenturies)
Basing on the analysis of the archaeological data on medieval burials of Yakuts we raise the problems of interpretation of graves with traces of an ancient ritual penetration and violation of burial structures and of anatomical integrity of the skeletons of the buried, using ethnographic and folklore data. We give a generalized description of the main types of disturbed graves of the late Middle Ages of Yakutia: secondary burial, embalming, rende…
A Medieval Yakut Burial Near Lake Atlasovskoye of the 14th–15th Centuries: An Anthropological Study
The burial near Lake Atlasovskoye, Yakutia, is one of the earliest Yakut burials, dating back to the 14th or 15th centuries and associated with the medieval Kulun-Atakh culture. Initially, its age was assessed by the comparative typological method based on artifacts, and later а radiocarbon estimate was generated, suggesting that the burial dates to the early stage of the Kulun-Atakh culture. Its highly unusual feature is that the individual was …
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
We give the fi rst description of an unusual composite bow of the Central Asian type, owned by the Toybokhoy Museum in the Suntarsky District of Yakutia, and provide information about its discovery. We foc us on the details and structural peculiarities of the specimen, and note that this refl ex composite bow differs in terms of construction and technology from those of the Northe rn type used by the Yakuts in the 17th to 19th centuries. It resem…
Early Yakut Burials of the Fourteenth-Seventeenth Centuries: New Data on the Origin of the Yakuts (Sakha)
The Kulun-Atakh archeological culture of the Sakha [Yakut] people is described on the basis of burials dated to the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. This is a period before the arrival of Cossacks, when the Sakha were first practicing livestock herding in the vast territories of what is today the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Recent dating techniques combined with new discoveries have made possible multidisciplinary research on Sakha origins
Tribes «which Became Wind: Autochthonous Substrate in Ethnocultural Genesis of the Yakuts Revisited
The study of the origin of the Yakuts focuses on the ethnic history of their alien Turkic-Mongolian ancestors. Issues of mutual ethnocultural influence of local and alien ethnic groups and identification of autochthonous tribes who took part in formation of the Yakut people are not fully researched. Yakut legends mention the tribes «which became wind», Khara-Sagyly, the mysterious «long-headed» Sakha, the bellicose Tumats/Jirikinei, etc. The ques…
A Medieval Yakut Burial Near Lake Atlasovskoye of the 14th–15th Centuries: An Anthropological Study
The burial near Lake Atlasovskoye, Yakutia, is one of the earliest Yakut burials, dating back to the 14th or 15th centuries and associated with the medieval Kulun-Atakh culture. Initially, its age was assessed by the comparative typological method based on artifacts, and later а radiocarbon estimate was generated, suggesting that the burial dates to the early stage of the Kulun-Atakh culture. Its highly unusual feature is that the individual was …
Early Yakut Burials of the Fourteenth-Seventeenth Centuries: New Data on the Origin of the Yakuts (Sakha)
The Kulun-Atakh archeological culture of the Sakha [Yakut] people is described on the basis of burials dated to the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. This is a period before the arrival of Cossacks, when the Sakha were first practicing livestock herding in the vast territories of what is today the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Recent dating techniques combined with new discoveries have made possible multidisciplinary research on Sakha origins
Comprehensive Study of the Early Yakut Sergelyakh Burial of the Xv - Beginning of the Xvi Centuries
The paper presents a comprehensive study of graves which relate to rare burial sites of the early stage of ethnic history of the Yakuts. The burial belongs to an equestrian warrior. It is confirmed by the findings of the horse harness and fragments of weapons, including a part of a Central Asian composite bow which is unique to the Yakuts, arrowheads and a blade of palma (Siberian pole weapon). The vertebral pathologies and morphological features…
The Ritually Disturbed Burials of Yakuts (Xvii-Xviii Сenturies)
Basing on the analysis of the archaeological data on medieval burials of Yakuts we raise the problems of interpretation of graves with traces of an ancient ritual penetration and violation of burial structures and of anatomical integrity of the skeletons of the buried, using ethnographic and folklore data. We give a generalized description of the main types of disturbed graves of the late Middle Ages of Yakutia: secondary burial, embalming, rende…
A new old hypothesis of the origin of the Yakuts (on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of A.A. Savvin, a specialist in folklore, ethnographer, and local historian)
A.A. Savvin (1896–1951) was one of the first Yakut ethnographers and folklore specialists who left huge scientific heritage of which only a small article was published during his lifetime. The Manuscript collection of IHRISN of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science keeps his personal collection consisting of about 100 items with a total amount of more than 500 printed pages. The guiding idea of his works was the question of the or…
The Woman's Burial of Atlasovskoe-2 of the Xvii Century in Central Yakutia: Results of a Complex Research
XVII . -2 . ( , ) ( , , , , -), , XVI-XIX
Tribes «which Became Wind: Autochthonous Substrate in Ethnocultural Genesis of the Yakuts Revisited
The study of the origin of the Yakuts focuses on the ethnic history of their alien Turkic-Mongolian ancestors. Issues of mutual ethnocultural influence of local and alien ethnic groups and identification of autochthonous tribes who took part in formation of the Yakut people are not fully researched. Yakut legends mention the tribes «which became wind», Khara-Sagyly, the mysterious «long-headed» Sakha, the bellicose Tumats/Jirikinei, etc. The ques…
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
Якутский сложносоставной лук из фондов Тойбохойского музея DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2020.48.3.099-106 Р.И. Бравина, В.М. Дьяконов Институт гуманитарных исследований и проблем малочисленных народов Севера СО РАН ул. Петровского, 1, Якутск, 677027, Россия Статья вводит в научный оборот уникальный сложносоставной лук центрально-азиатского типа, который хранится в Тойбохойском краеведческом музее Сунтарского улуса Якутии. В работе приводятся информаци…
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
We give the fi rst description of an unusual composite bow of the Central Asian type, owned by the Toybokhoy Museum in the Suntarsky District of Yakutia, and provide information about its discovery. We foc us on the details and structural peculiarities of the specimen, and note that this refl ex composite bow differs in terms of construction and technology from those of the Northe rn type used by the Yakuts in the 17th to 19th centuries. It resem…
Frozen graves of Yakutia, a chronological sequence
Distribution, cultural and chronological attribution of frozen graves of Yakutia between the beginning of 17th and end of 19th century. The funerary rites and the artefacts allow to differentiate four chrono-cultural periods (before 1700 AD, from 1700 to 1750 AD, from 1750 to 1800 AD and after 1800 AD) which could be associated with historical events: opening of the trading post of Nertchinsk, expansion of the Kangalasky clan, economic collapse, …
Tamgas of the 19th and Early 20th Century Yakuts (Sakha)
The article deals with tamga symbols which played a role in the socio-economic life and culture of the Central, Vilyuisk and Northern local groups of the Yakuts since the lineage-based society up to the early twentieth century. Tamgas were marks to identify kinship and social status, property, enjoyment and dispose of the owner’s property, as well as sacral symbols of religious beliefs and practices of the Yakuts. Tamga marks were used to denote …
Birch bark in the funeral rite of the Yakuts: A case-study of the Uchugei-Yuryakh burial (15th-17th cc)
The Uchugei-Yuryakh birch-bark burial, radiocarbon dated to 1480-1640 cal AD, was discovered in the southern part of the Tuymaada valley, located in the basin of the Middle Lena River, one of the largest rivers in North-Eastern Siberia. This region is traditionally regarded as the area where the most important events of the Yakut history were taking place over many centuries, and as the area associated with the formation of the Yakut ethnic cultu…
Axes of the Middle Ages and Modern Times of Yakutia: Typology and Interpretation
Xiongnu-Xianbei layer in the Yakut Culture
The aim of the article is to systematize and conceptualize the similarities between the paleo-ethnographic culture of the Yakuts and the Xiongnu of Central Asia, and to assess the possible ways of their appearance and incorporation into the new environment. In addition to the published data on this topic, the main source for the preparation of this paper was authors' field archaeological material, collected during many years of expeditions. Among…
“Syuge-balta tyl”: Axe symbol in traditional Yakut culture
Актуальность предлагаемого исследования состоит в отсутствии специальных работ, посвященных символике топора в традиционной культуре якутов. Топор как предмет сугубо утилитарной сферы «вещного мира» имел несколько видов: топоры-чеканы, топор чохороон, балта, тэрэгэр сюгэ, басымньы сюгэ. Первые, по всей вероятности, использовались в качестве боевого оружия, а топоры чохороон имели универсальное (боевое и рабочее) значение, что подтверждается данны…
Mammoth bone collecting as a traditional occupation of the indigenous population of the East Siberian Arctic (17th - early 20th c)
The paper is concerned with the history of collecting and trade of fossil mammoth bones as a traditional occupa-tion of the indigenous population of the East Siberian Arctic in the 17th - early 20th c. For a long time the indigenous peoples of the North practiced individual collecting, incidental in the course of hunting, of fossil bones for their house-hold needs. Meanwhile, archaic ideas about the mammoth as a sacred chthonic animal served as a…
“Dance of the Deceased Brides”: Occasional Practices in Yakut Funeral Rites
Статья вводит в научный оборот неопубликованные ранее фольклорные тексты об окказиональных обрядах якутов, связанных с традиционными представлениями о смерти и воскрешении/продлении жизни. Первая группа источников содержит предания вилюйских якутов о трехкратном перезахоронении дочери матерью-шаманкой. С целью вернуть ее в мир живых мать ежегодно устраивала летний праздник ысыах, где умершая, поддерживаемая подругами, «участвовала» в ритуальном т…
An Unusual Bronze Figurine from the Samartai Museum, Yakutia: The “Thing-in-Itself” and Semantic Content
В работе представлены результаты исследования уникального бронзового идола — крылатого медведя с изображениями антропоморфной личины и головы медведя на груди. Артефакт был найден в Хангаласском улусе Якутии и хранится в музее «Самартай» с. Кердём. Поиск аналогий данному предмету привел к целому кругу культур раннего железного века и Средневековья в Предуралье, Приуралье и Западной Сибири. Подобные полиэйконические образы были характерны для куль…
An Unusual Bronze Figurine from the Samartai Museum, Yakutia: The “Thing-in-Itself” and Semantic Content
This article presents a rare bronze idol—a winged bear with an anthropomorphic mask and a bear head on the chest. The artifact was found in the Khangalas Ulus (district) of Yakutia and is kept in the Samartai Museum in the village of Kerdem. The search for parallels led to a wide range of Early Iron Age and medieval cultures of the Western Urals and Western Siberia. Similar composite images are common among cast ritual items relating to the Pecho…
Yakut elite of the 17th century: The grave of toyon Mazary Bozekov
The article is dedicated to the study of the burial complex of the Khangalassky ancestor (toyon) Mazary Bozekov, who was one of the most prominent leaders of the Yakut people in the 17th century, and who had an audience with Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich in Moscow. The grave of Mazary was excavated in the Isteekh Byraan locality of the Khangalassky District of Yakutia in 1933 by the expedition of G.V. Ksenofontov and M.N. Kovinin, however, its exact lo…
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