The field diaries of R.G. Kuzeev as a source of information about the north-eastern complex of Bashkir folk costume

The purpose of the article is to analyze information about the clothes of the northeastern Bashkirs contained in the field records of the famous historian and ethnographer Rail Gumerovich Kuzeev and introduce them into scientific circulation. These materials complement previously published ethnographic sources about the northeastern complex of the traditional Bashkir costume, clarify and concretize our ideas about its evolution, about the time of transition from homespun clothes to clothes made from factory fabrics, about the tradition of abundantly decorating it with tambour embroidery. Since collecting information about Bashkir folk costume was not the main purpose of R.G. Kuzeev’s field research, information about clothes in his field diaries is fragmentary and distributed among his other records, which makes it difficult to perceive and use them. Therefore, their identification and analysis were an urgent task for specialists studying the problems of traditional clothing of the peoples of the Volga-Ural region, the issues of ethnography of Bashkirs. The great value of the information contained in the field records of R.G. Kuzeev is that they were made in the middle of the twentieth century. (in 1959), and the older of his informants were born at the end of the XIX century. and could describe the clothes of the late XIX — early XX century. The twentieth century and the changes that took place during the first half of the twentieth century. This article continues the series of articles by the author devoted to Bashkir clothing in the materials of R.G. Kuzeev’s field diaries.