SETS OF ORNAMENTS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC SUBGROUPS OF THE UDMURTS. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Traditional decorations play an important role in the decoration of Udmurt costumes. For the first time the paper presents the results of the author’s recent field researches. It highlights specific features of traditional decorations, sets of objects of different ethnographic divisions of the Udmurt people. The focus is on the traditional decorations of northern Udmurts, kalmezes, Upper-Ish Sharkan Udmurts, and southern Udmurts living on the periphery of the ethnic territories outside Udmurtia. Traditional decorations of southern Udmurts help identify the areas of six subgroups that make up this group of the Udmurts. Turkic influence on the traditional culture of different ethnographic groups of the Udmurts is considered. Areas of existence of different types of traditional ornaments coincide with the settling of historical ethnographic groups of the Udmurt people, and they help not only to distinguish these groups, but also to identify some of the characteristics of their historical development.