Sovik is the national Samoyed men’s winter outerwear. In the dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron, it has the following definition: “Samoyed fur coat made of reindeer skins with hair up and a hood worn from the head over the deerskin parka”. Another outerwear name is sokuy. It is called sovik, since the hood makes the human head look like the head of a polar owl. Only adult deer skins are used for sovik. Deer fur has a tubular structure. The warm air inside the hair is sealed, thus keeping the temperature inside and providing a warming effect.
This apparel was introduced to the funds in 1989 during a historical and ethnographic expedition in the Krasnoselkupskiy District of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The expedition of the Tobolsk State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve was led by historian and ethnographer Igor Belich.
The exhibit is completely handmade. The fur coat was sewn by the craftswoman Antonina Irikova. By its design, sovik is a long, dense closed-up shirt with a hood, which was worn over the head. The craftswoman made the sovik out of large and small pieces of gray and white deerskin with the fur outside. The parts were sewn together with small oblique stitches butt-to-butt, while using thin single-core threads. The back of the fur coat was made straight. It slightly expands downwards and is cut out of several rectangular pieces of skins. The central part is made square tapering to the neck and passing into a stand-up collar. It is adjacent to the side rectangular strips that pass into the sleeve. The front part of the sovik consists of a yoke connecting the sleeves with the collar, the central part, and two adjacent side-wide stripes.
This apparel was introduced to the funds in 1989 during a historical and ethnographic expedition in the Krasnoselkupskiy District of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The expedition of the Tobolsk State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve was led by historian and ethnographer Igor Belich.
The exhibit is completely handmade. The fur coat was sewn by the craftswoman Antonina Irikova. By its design, sovik is a long, dense closed-up shirt with a hood, which was worn over the head. The craftswoman made the sovik out of large and small pieces of gray and white deerskin with the fur outside. The parts were sewn together with small oblique stitches butt-to-butt, while using thin single-core threads. The back of the fur coat was made straight. It slightly expands downwards and is cut out of several rectangular pieces of skins. The central part is made square tapering to the neck and passing into a stand-up collar. It is adjacent to the side rectangular strips that pass into the sleeve. The front part of the sovik consists of a yoke connecting the sleeves with the collar, the central part, and two adjacent side-wide stripes.
