Architectural assessment of shaping traditional Yakut tethering posts sergeh: the case of Afanasy Munkhalov’s graphic works

Abstract

The territory of traditional residence of any group of people is filled with buildings, structures, as well as various objects, which, along with their daily utilitarian household economic functions, are endowed with religious, sacred, mystical, totemic and other meanings. Such objects are the traditional Yakut tethering posts sergeh. Modern researchers have considered many aspects of the ritual purpose of the sergeh; significant material has been obtained by modern archaeological research in many regions of Yakutia. The questions were posed: what were the proportions of the geometric dimensions of the parts of the historical serge? What ratio of the diameter and height of the sergeh could be considered “ideal”? The source of the necessary information is the jubilee album of the graphic artist Afanasy Munkhalov. Munkhalov’s graphic works were scanned, the geometric dimensions of the images of the scanned sergeh were measured in the AutoCAD program, the results were tabulated to determine the proportions - the ratio of the diameters and the height of the sergeh. 47 images of sergeh were processed. The processing of the measurement results allows us to conclude that the ideal proportion of household sergeh is the ratio of the diameter of the sergeh to its height, expressed by a ratio of 1: 6.