Doukhobor Textiles

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Doukhobor Textiles

• Researched by Christine Ibia
• Assisted by Heather Bradford
• Section 102, Kirilovka

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Materials at the Site

• Flax
• Hemp
• Wool
• Cotton
• Silk

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Material Preparation

• Flax
• -Flax Brake (MYALKA)
• Mortar (STUPKA)
• Hemp
• -Similar Preparation as Flax

• Wool
• Comb the Fibres
• Silk and Cotton
• -Not Prepared on the Site

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Doukhobor Skills

• Women
• -Textile making
• i.e. Spinning (PRYAST)
• Weaving (TKAT)
• Men
• -Woodworking
• i.e. Spinning Wheel (PRYALKA)

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Finished Products

• Footwear
• Rugs
• Linens
• Bedding
• Clothing

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Purpose of Textile Making

• Past
• 1. Survival
• 2. Creative Expression
• Present
• Unnecessary due to availability of ready-made
  materials

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Interpretation of Evidence

• Artifact Cleaning
• Microscope Analysis Wool fibres are scaly
• Flax fibres are bamboo like,
• Cotton fibres are twisted and ribbon like
• Silk fibres are smooth and rod like

• Observation of Photographs
• -Comparison to Communities of Similar Background
  Canadians, Russians
• Witness Accounts
• Ethnographic Analogy

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References

• Burnham, Dorothy K.
• 1986 Unlike the Lilies Doukhobor Textile
  Traditions in Canada. Toronto Royal
• Ontario Museum
• Kozakavich, Stacy
• 1998 A State of Change An Historical
  Archaeology of Doukhobor Identity at
• Kirilovka Village Site (FcNs-1). M.A. Thesis,
  Department of Anthropology,
• University of Saskatchewan.
• Tarasoff, Koozma J. and Robert B. Klymasz
• 1995 Spirit Wrestlers Centennial Papers in
  Honour of Canadas Doukhobor
• Heritage. Quebec Canadian Museum of
  Civilization.
• Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
• 20011996 The Doukhobors Spirit Wrestlers.
  Electronic document,
• http//www.civilization.ca/cultur/doukhobors/do
  v01eng.html, accessed
• October 20.

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References

• Deedrick, Douglas W.
• 2000 Hairs, Fibers, Crime, and Evidence, Part
  2. Electronic document,
• http//www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/july2000/d
  eedric3.htm
• Kalmakoff, Jonathan J.
• 2000 Doukhobor Genealogy. Electronic Document,
  
• http//users.accesscomm.ca/doukhobor.genealogy/
  , accessed October 22.
• Androsoff, Ryan and the Doukhobor Homepage
  Working Group
• Doukhobor Homepage. Electronic document,
  http//www.doukhobor-homepage.com/,
• accessed October 23.