History and Culture: Exhibitions of archaeological findings launched at the Novosibirsk Local History Museum

Two exhibitions of archaeological findings "Poikovsky Treasure" and "Under the Constellation of the Great Elk" were opened in the main building of the Novosibirsk Local History Museum.

The exposition "Under the Constellation of the Great Elk" tells about the life and mythological ideas of the Kulay people - taiga hunters and fishermen who lived on the territory of Western Siberia during the early Iron Age (5th century BC - 5th century AD). The Kulay culture got its name from Mount Kulayka in the Chainsky District of Tomsk Region. The archaeologists discovered here a "treasure" of bronze cult objects in 1920. The specific feature of this culture is a unique "Kulay style" of the bronze casting of the products in flat solid or hollow forms. The exhibition features more than a hundred items from the M. B. Shatilov Tomsk Regional Local History Museum: bronze arrowheads, openwork diadems, pendants and figurines reflecting mythological ideas about the world by the ancient people of Western Siberia.

The exhibition "Poikovsky Treasure" presents more than a hundred items from the Museum of Nature and Man: bronze figures, masks and tree-like images, fragments of Sarmatian mirrors and metal arrowheads. The Poikovsky treasure is one of the last big recent findings of the early Iron Age cult casting in the North of Western Siberia. Rare archaeological items were found accidentally during excavation work in Nefteyugansk District of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Territory. The treasure received its name after the nearest settlement - the village of Poikovsky.