KONGRE BİLDİRİLERİ
Studying the interior of the Gagauz dwelling N.M. Mogilyanskyi paid attention to such an artifact
as oblong pillows (yastık, tülü yastık) – it is obvious Eastern influence in the culture of Moldovia
inhabitants (they are found both in Moladia and Bulgaria). In descriptions of the samples the name
of old red woolen fabric for the pillow with geometric pattern kırma or semi woolen red fabric ulama
for pillow with dark-red and dark blue edging is indicated. Characterizing pillow-cases for pillows
which consisted of upper and lower parts the collector noted different quality of fabric: the upper part
– homemade material weaved with colored worsted, the lower part – fabric with geometrical pattern.
The researcher and ethnographer N.M. Mogilyanskyi got a fragment of the runner, palatar –
sample of the pile double-sided weaving.
Part of the carpet in kilim (palatar) technic. 1870s. Komrat
a.
b.
In the archive of the Russian Museum of Ethnography samples of the Gagauz ornaments are
kept. They were presented by V.A. Moshkov – one of the first researchers in Gagauz history and
culture.3
a.b. - «yastık üzü» - pillow-cases for pillows for the benches
c.
с - « yastık üzü» - upper part of the pillow-case for the pillow.
Picture of the chimney decorated with Gagauz ornament and the example of the decorative
appearance of the external house wall. Bessarabia Gubernia, Bender district.1903 г.
Among the utensils that were bought there were kükür bakır- copper, tinned small bucket with
the thrown back handle and paralä sofra - wooden, turned, oval shaped upper part of the table on the
cylindrical hollow supporter.
3. V.A. Moshkov. The Gagauz of the Bender district: Ethnographical essay and materials. Kishinev, 2004.
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