Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 47 (1) 2019   DOI: 10.17746/1563-0110.2019.47.1.137-146

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Types of Winter Clothing Worn by Descendants
of the Russian Pioneers in Siberia (Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries)

E.F. Fursova

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

Warm clothing was an important cultural adaptation, enabling the Russian pioneers to survive in the harsh climate of Siberia. The sources for the study are archival documents, including VK. Multinov’s manuscript “Clothing of the Angara People” (1926), results of field studies in the 1970s and 1980s by the present author, museum artifacts, and collection inventories compiled by A.N. Beloslyudov, S.P. Shvetsov, I.I. Baranova, and I.I. Shangina, as well as data collected by climatologists, technologists, and designers. Types of winter clothing, including outfits for hunting and fishing, worn by the Russians living on the Angara, in the Altai, and Trans-Baikal, are described. These include cloth-covered and non-covered fur coats, short fur coats, those with the fur on the inside, robes, as well as warm pants, fur hats, boots, and mittens. Protection from the cold was ensured by the use of high-volume insulating materials, several layers, and by habits such as tucking one piece of clothing into another (the so-called “Siberian one-piece garment”). Specific features in Siberia are observed, including the use in winter hunting outfits of certain elements of native Siberian clothing (specifically that of the Tungus clothing on the Angara), and the women’s habit of wearing men’s garments with belts.

Keywords: Thermal insulation, winter clothing, hunting outfits, Siberian Russians, interdisciplinary approach, Siberian one-piece garment