Lidiia Chechulina comments on another kukhlianka

3:26-8:57

"This kukhlianka could be much older. Because here, everything is moth-eaten, only the skin without the fur remains. It is probably from Aliutorka. My grandmother lived there in the past, and she had such embroidery. Or it could be from Khailino. These patterns are made from reindeer leg fur, and those are from dyed seal leather. Others are from a small squirrel, whose fur was removed and dyed, very well done. The kukhlianka we just saw (I A 2911) has a similar pattern to this one and is also sewn in the Koryak style. It is apparently very old because my grandmother didn't embroider with threads, she only used mosaics made from reindeer leg fur. And these were made with a punching knife. Perhaps this kukhlianka was once very beautiful a long time ago. It was probably a burial kukhlianka that was to be burned with the corpse. From a young age, people began sewing such a burial kukhlianka. It was decorated with very wide hem strips with embroidery, mosaics, or parts of the throats of sea animals, throat hairs from reindeer, and dyed squirrel furs. The old embroidery was very beautifully done. Nowadays, you can't see such embroidery anymore." (Subtitles ☸︎ + cc)

Recorded during a seminar at the Foundation for Siberian Cultures by Erich Kasten. Fürstenberg/Havel, 2020.