K.A. INOSTRANTZEV СOLLECTION ON TRADITIONAL NOGAI CULTURE IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE RUSSIAN ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM
The article discusses a small, but rather rich in content, collection of objects from the Department of Ethnography of the Peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia and Kazakhstan of the Russian Ethnographic Museum for Nogai Culture of the North-East Caucasus (Karanogais), which was collected at the beginning of the last century by K.A. Inostrantzev. This collection under stock number 333 is the very first museum collection on traditional Nogai culture. The collection fully demonstrates the features of the traditional culture and art of the people. It contains unique materials that have long been lost in the environment of everyday life and do not have originals in the central and regional museums of the country and in private collections. These are the interior items of the yurt, items of male and female costume, wedding arba, wedding yurt and felt decorations of the wedding yurt of the late XIX - early XX centuries. The main objective of the study is to consider museum objects of the collection 333 as objects of historical and cultural heritage, to identify and study them as an independent scientific source. This formulation of the problem was primarily due to modern trends, when in the era of digital computer technology in the humanities, interest in the latest research practices is growing. The study of objects of traditional culture using modern techniques would allow to reveal already seemingly sufficiently studied material from a new point of view. In this sense, museum collections play a significant role and sometimes are the only source for studying objects of traditional material culture and art of some peoples. And therefore, the allocation of the specifics of the information resource of museum material for its further analysis is one of the urgent tasks today, both in historical disciplines and in the field of related sciences. As part of this study, a detailed analysis of museum objects was carried out, the attribution of things was compiled, a classification was created.