IMPORT OBJECTS IN THE COSTUME COMPLEX OF THE POLOMSKaya CULTURE (BY THE EXAMPLE OF BURIAL 695B OF THE VARNINSKIY BURIAL GROUND)

Abstract

The article analyzes the case of atypical use of a fastener as an element of the headpiece from burial 695B of Varninskiy burial ground. The burial is dated to the second half of the 8th century. It contains many adornments of a women's costume, among which there are paired composite braid’s decorations. As a pendant, one of them used a loop-like clasp, which has direct analogies in the materials of the upper Kama region and the Mari Volga region. According to the materials of the Mari burial grounds, it was established that this type of fasteners was used as shoe clasps. Spreading to the north and east, fasteners changed their functionality. So, in the upper Kama region they were used to fasten a handbag or outerwear. The authors recorded a case of using a fastener as a “souvenir” part of a multi-component decoration. This allows expanding the understanding of the change in the function of an object when it enters a foreign cultural environment.