Expeditionary negatives of Tuva in the Kunstkamera collection, 1952 and 1953
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2020.3.17Keywords:
Tuva; Kunstkamera; Tuvans; Ekaterina Dmitrievna Prokofieva; Alexandr Danilovich Grach; history of Tuvan studies; photography; photography collection; negative; cultural heritageAbstract
The article presents an overview of the collection of photographic negatives (the number of frames, the type of film used, and the completeness of the scientific description of objects) taken by E. D. Prokofieva and A. D. Grach in 1952 and 1953 as part of the Tuvan team of the Sayan-Altay expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Our study relies on the information from the record of entry at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, its inventories and the collectors’ publications. The article introduces the collection of negatives, focusing specifically on some images characteristic of the main shooting scenes.
We also examine some issues of probable tampering with the original images, such as cropping or changing contrast, when field materials were being prepared for publication. Also identified and classified are both the materials which have been published and those negatives that were not included in any publications.
The article marks thematic clusters in E. D. Prokofieva’s and A. D. Grach’s negatives collections, such as archaeological, ethnographic and anthropological surveying; everyday work of the expedition; individual and group portraits; landscapes; and collections of the Tuvan regional museum.
The main challenges for our study were the brevity of the labelling and description of the materials as they were registered by the collectors, the lack of information about photographers, and the group shots which rarely listed those in the photo.
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Stanulevich N. A. Materialy Tuvinskogo otriada Saiano-Altaiskoi ekspeditsii 1952 i 1953 gg. na negativakh iz sobraniia Kunstkamery [Expeditionary negatives of Tuva in the Kunstkamera collection, 1952 and 1953]. New Research of Tuva, 2020, no. 3, pp. 240–252. (In Russ.). DOI: www.doi.org/10.25178/nit.2020.3.17
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Nadezhda A. Stanulevich, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, RAS
Candidate of History, Junior Research Fellow, Laboratory of Museum Technologies, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) Russian Academy of Sciences.
Postal address: 3 Universitetskaya Emb., 199034 Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (904) 556-16-68.
E-mail: nadstanul@kunstkamera.ru
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