Idol from White Anui
One of the last was a stone statue, in the southern part of the university grove. This stone woman is well known to specialists and has been repeatedly published (Evtyukhova, 1941; Evtyukhova, 1952; Kubarev, 1984; Ozheredov, 2014). However, the circumstances of her admission to Tomsk remained unclear for a long time.
To date, the details of her appearance at the university have been restored from a series of documents stored in the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of Siberia at Tomsk University and in the archives of the IMC in St. Petersburg (Ozheredov, 2014).
According to the available information, the statue comes from the territory of Altai and, by the nature of the discovery, is a random find. A stone sculpture was found, about 3 km from Bely Anui, in the valley of the Bely Anui River (Ust-Kansky District, Altai Republic). He was discovered peasant G.V. Konev. "Baba" lay on the surface and was partially covered with earth.
By order of the land surveyor of the Main Directorate of the Altai District Eremin (and according to another version of the volost authorities), who was at that time in Beliy Anui, it was excavated. Further, the sources present two versions of events: according to one of them, the statue was left in place, where it lost its head without proper control. Another version of events: the statue was taken to the village, where it was placed against the fence post of the “inns”, this happened in September 1899. Apparently, during this period it was destroyed.
News about the find and its destruction reached the Governor of Tomsk, who informed the Archaeological Commission about this fact. In April 1902, the stone woman was delivered to Tomsk. It was placed in the building of the Offices under the supervision of a caretaker, with the condition of further transfer to the Archaeological Museum of Tomsk University. According to the information available in the documents, a fragment of the head of the statue was also delivered to Tomsk, as the Governor of Tomsk reported in his letter to the Archaeological Commission. Unfortunately, the fate of these fragments remained unknown. Apparently, they did not enter the museum of archeology.