Field ethnographic materials at the Museum for Archaeology and Ethnography of Siberia n.a. V.M. Florinskiy in Tomsk State University

In this article we are talking about field and photographic materials collected by Tomsk ethnographers in the period from the 1960s to the 1990s, which are stored in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of Siberia n.a. V.M. Florinskiy of Tomsk State University. The ethnographic expeditions were made mainly to the Khanty of Tomsk and Tyumen region. The last expedition diary by N.V. Lukina is dated 1990. These field diaries are unique sources of information. Thus, basing on field data the author gives the examples of positive or negative associations with the color of objects and associated beliefs in the household, hunting and spiritual aspects of life in animate and inanimate nature. On the analysis of traditions and beliefs prohibitions, signs, certain rules of human behavior according to subject, place and situation in the different territories of Khanty settlement are stood out. Photographic collections are of great interest. They can be relatively subdivided into general, such as "The album of ethnographic expeditions by N.V. Lukina: Salekhard and Lower Ob. 1987» and thematic, such as "Vakhovsko-Vasyuganskiye Khanty. Khanty Children. Hunters at work and in life». In addition to the materials provided for storage by above mentioned authors, MAES contains extensive documentary and ethnographic and archaeological collections of Tomsk researchers on other peoples of Siberia . Their value, in my opinion, is that when comparing the data recorded in field materials and photographs with the current state of traditional culture one can trace its development over time, identify problematic issues and identify ways to preserve it.

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