The archaeological-ethnographical private collection of V.A. Danilov in the funds of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Studies Museum

The paper is dedicated to the description of the archeological-ethnographical private collection of V.A. Danilov - a Siberian wine producer. It had been gathered in the southern part of Central Siberia in the latter 1800s - early 1900s. The authors cite documents from the archives of the University of Helsinki, Moscow, and Krasnoyarsk, which indicate that the collection was placed in the Krasnoyarsk City Museum in 1920. The collection consists of over one thousand archeological artifacts and 118 ethnographical artifacts. The archeological collection consisting out of stone, bronze, and iron implements dates back to the Paleolithic Age, Karasuk, Tagar, and Tashtyk Cultures as well as the early medieval period of the Minusinsk Hollow. The Paleolithic tools are stone side and end-scrapers, as well as knives knapped from flint plates and flakes. The Karasuk tools are bronze parabolic and geniculate knives. The majority of the collection consists of tools from the early Iron Age (Tagar). Among these are: bronze kettles, knives, daggers, celts, battle picks, arrowheads, a bow model, buckles in Scytho-Siberian animal style, awls and hole punchers, sharpening stones, and molds. The iron knives are dated to a transition period from the Tagar to the Tashtyk Cultures. A third of the collection consists of medieval objects: various iron arrowheads, flanged adzes, knives, horse tack. Among the bronze objects are Chinese mirrors and horse tack buckles. V.A. Danilov's ethnographical collection includes items typical of Khakas-Kachin culture (64 objects), Tuvinian (2 objects), Shor (2 objects), and Russian (51 objects). Among these are: kitchenware, bedding items, a children's fishing net, horse tack, a string musical instrument, clothing and shaman culture attributes (a tambourine, cloak, and headwear). The majority of Russian ethnographical items consist out of home woven clothing (including notes of when, where, and by who in had been made). The aforementioned items also have description notes.

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