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  •  Башкирские тамги. Photo 1
  •  Башкирские тамги. Photo 2

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Bashkir tamgas, which can be found on the outskirts of the village of Tashly in Bashkortostan, are ancient symbols of clan affiliation and property. Tamgas were widely used by the Bashkirs to mark the boundaries of estates, pastures, side trees, as well as to mark tools, livestock and household items. Sometimes tamgas were even used as signatures on official documents, and their transmission by inheritance served as a way to preserve clan and tribal identity.

Tamgas were symbolic signs conveying information about the origin and membership of a particular clan or tribe. Often descendants came up with additional elements or modified the tamga of their ancestor in order to emphasize their belonging to a certain line.

The history of tamgas in the Southern Urals goes back more than 3.5 thousand, and they are found both on archaeological sites of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, and in family collections in the 18th century.

The village of Tashly, where these tamgas are located, was founded by the Bashkirs in 1745 on their own lands. This is a small settlement on the banks of the Tashlynka River, where local residents traditionally engaged in cattle breeding, farming and beekeeping.

Tamgas had deep cultural and social meanings, testifying to the continuity and inheritance of material and spiritual values in a nomadic society. They played a key role in the transmission of cultural traditions and identity from generation to generation until the beginning of the 20th century.

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