Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 43 (4) 2015

Annotation:  The Pleistocene Peopling of the North: Paleolithic Milestones and Thresholds Horizons In Northern Eu Transitional Middle to Upper Paleolithic Industries in the Rubas Valley, Coastal Dagestan Truncated-Faceted Pieces in the Paleolithic of Northern Asia Archaeological Sites on the Angara Bank from the Chadobets River to Boguchany: Findings of a Survey A Rare Bronze Sword from Lake Baikal Shore A Stone Abrasive Tile from Cheremkhova, Western Amur Region A Ceremonial Saddle from Altynkazgan, Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan First Steps Towards a National Geographic Information System, “Archaeological Sites of Russia” Petroglyphs of Khabarovsk Territory: The Impact of the 2013 Amur and Ussuri Flooding Shakan: Kazakh 18th–19th Century Narrow-Bladed Battle Axes Mapping the Traditional Dress Types of Southwestern Siberian Old Believers (late 1800s–early 1900s) The Impact of Urbanization on the Transmission of Culture and Language of the Sakha People: A Sociol The Morphology of Human Teeth from Afontova Gora II, Southern Siberia, and Their Status Relative to A Paleogenetic Study of Pazyryk People Buried at Ak-Alakha-1, the Altai Mountains   

Mapping the Traditional Dress Types of Southwestern Siberian Old Believers (late 1800s–early 1900s)

E.F. Fursova.

This article addresses the traditional domestic clothing of various groups of southwestern Siberian Old Believers. Professing the same Priestless Old Belief, they came from various parts of European Russia (“Poles”, Belarusian “Muscovites”, Kerzhaks, etc.). The study is based on the sarafan set of women’s wear representing the most typical element of the traditional Russian apparel. Sarafan features vary across populations, making it possible to identify separate ethnic groups and indicate their possible sources of migration. Mapping the ethnological data collected during fi eld studies has shown signifi cant cultural variability of Old Believer groups, and their affi nity to either northeastern or northwestern Russian traditions. Ethno-cultural diversity was maintained owing to the stability of marriage circles until the 1920s.

Keywords: Western Siberia, Old Believers, sarafan types, mapping.