Children's dolls nerym yakh. Toys as an element of traditional culture

T.A. Isaeva

The ethnographic collection of the Nerym Yakh dolls ("Nerym Yakh" translates as "marsh people", a group of east Khanty inhabiting the marshes in the River Trom-Agan (a tributary of the Ob) catchment basin) of the Surgut Regional Museum of Local Lore was started at the beginning of this century. It came as a result of reconstruction of the process of making these dolls, which was performed with the assistance of Nerym Yakh craftswomen-consultants. Based on this collection, the book "Nerym Yakh Fairy-tales and Dolls" was published, and the Museum's Ethnic Puppet Theater was created. Today, both the collection and the theater have won recognition beyond Surgut: the project "Nerym Yakh Dolls and Fairy-tales" was presented at Eurasia 2006 competition among children's museum projects held in Moscow and St Petersburg and was awarded the Gold Medal in the category "In one's own way"

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