Methods of using the flora of the southwestern Kyrgyz people in the end of the 19th and beginning of the XX centuries (based on the field material of the Batken region)

In this article, for the first time, one of the insufficiently studied problems “the ways of using plants of the southwestern Kyrgyz in the processing of skins in the late XIX and early XX centuries” is considered. Based on a thorough analysis of the relevant material, it is substantiated that the southwestern Kyrgyz processed skins and fur products in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and used different types of plants, and we are witnessing this problem. They produced materials from animal skins suitable for household use (clothes, shoes, utensils, horse equipment, etc.). The skin was cleaned from the remnants of meat, fat, and made it soft, durable, flexible and waterproof, and finally dyed with herbs. The dyed leather goods were of high quality. Attempts have been made to provide folk methods of labor-intensive leather production of the southwestern Kyrgyz, including the use of plants, based on field materials.