Wooden Cup "Byradah"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Same as 352241."
label: Notes
content: Identified by Zinaida Ivanova, Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia Federation, 11-7-2012 as ceremonial cup for feasting, or choron, used for fermented mare's milk/koumiss.
label: Notes
content: Kumys (kumis, kumiss or koumiss) is a fermented milk product traditionally made from mare's milk (though industrial-scale production today generally uses cow's milk), which is popular in Central Asia, parts of Russia, and Eastern Europe. It is consumed both as food as well as an alcoholic drink.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Goblet, ornamented. Choron, byradakh.19th century, first half. Birch. Dimensional, contoured, three-side notched carving, hollowing. H.: 24, D.: 16.4. This is a low choron with a spherical body on one leg with a wide stable round platform. The rim is profiled with combed and mesh ornaments, below which there are four rows of zigzag ornament. The entasis, a widened part of the body, is emphasised with a mesh ornament. There are two smooth bands with traces of small nails below the rim and in the middle of the body that probably means that there were small metal rings there previously, which are missing now. The leg is ornamented with three rows of shallow parallel strokes. There is a large crack on the leg. All items needed for preparing and ritual drinking of kumys are considered to be sacred.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352240-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cup
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 24 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 16.4 cm