Cult objects of the Ob Ugrians. Traditions and innovations

The article presents the results offi eld research of the Circumpolar Ethnographic Detachment in the current year. The purpose of the publication is to introduce information about new religious objects of the Lyapinsky Mansi of the Berezovsky District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and the Khanty of the Shuryshkarsky District of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District into scientific circulation. A detailed description of the following groups of sacred objects is given: figurines of family patron spirits (including ittarma); sacrificial veils and sacrificial shawls. Certain innovations in making sacred objects emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. A unique personalized ittarma image was found - a passport photo of a young woman in national clothes was pasted on a wooden anthropomorphic figurine. The ritual objects collected this year and the data of monitoring of religious sites indicate the extinction of the religious traditions of the Ob Ugrians. These objects will replenish the ethnographic collection of the Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East, IAET SB RAS.