To browse Academia. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. June Inga Stasevich. Despite keen interest in saukele shown by Kazakh culture researchers, many aspects of this headdress decoration and meaning of their imagery remain understudied until today. The aim of the present article is to introduce these museum objects into scholarly context as an ethnographic source as well as to estab- lish their history and characteristic existence of such headdress type in the Kazakh culture by the way of a comparative historical and semantic analysis.
Keywords: MAE RAS, Kazakhstan, saukele, wedding headdresses, ethnographic collections, photographic illustration The formation of Kunstkamera's collection of the Ka- Meticulous work undertaken by collectors brought zakh traditional culture has taken more than two centu- a host of traditional Kazakh culture items alongside with ries.
Currently the Museum holds more than a thousand a wealth of photographic materials into the holdings of the items of Kazakh culture, including four unique wedding Museum, which provides for a comprehensive analysis of headdresses named saukele.
Undoubtedly, the photographs and ethno- saukele and its symbolic meaning in the Kazakh culture. In summary, the MAE holdings has today four as, for instance, elements of traditional attire.
These saukeles: one from the Turgay region call No. All past. Therefore, A glimpse at a culture captured by photographer, the collection includes bridal headdresses typical of the a forever-recorded instant in the life of an ethnographic territory of the Kazakh diffusion of the Kishi, or Junior object allows for contextualizing the object against the or Lesser juz and , Orta, or Middle juz known ethnographic reality. This breathes new life into a, b, c , and Uli, or Senior or Greater juz Call No.
