Introduction This work is a logical continuation of the article "Yenisei mummies (archaeological sources and their anatomical expertise)", published in the same journal in 2003 (Vadetskaya and Protasov, 2003, pp. 36-47). It will focus on materials from the later Tatar (Tesinsky) Novye Mochagi mound, since there are practically no plaster masks preserved in other similar mounds. The mound is located 12 km to the east of Sayanogorsk near the village of Kala (Khakassia). In 1983, it was excavated by the head of the Middle Yenisei expedition of the LOIA of the USSR Academy of Sciences, N. Yu. Kuzmin. The burial chamber (dimensions: 11x12 m), unlike dozens of other burials of the same time, is arranged not in a pit, but on the surface of the ground. It is built of turf and surrounded by a fence. The internal walls of the structure are covered with birch bark, wooden blocks and framed by vertically placed logs. In the center was a log house measuring 7.5 x 7.5 m, with a height of at least 50 cm. In it, apparently on shelves, over 80 mummies were placed, which fell and lay randomly, but tightly on top of each other, without any earthen layers. Mostly intact skeletons have been preserved, but 23 mummies are represented either by skulls and scattered bones, or parts of the bones in the joint. Between the turf walls and the log house, the remains of at least 30 more people were found, mostly skulls lying one at a time or in piles. The log house was broken by robbers, so two assumptions can be made about the origin of the remains outside it: either whole mummies were buried in the log house, and parts of them were buried behind the log house, or, more likely, the skulls along with a few bones were thrown out of the log house by robbers. The physical conditions that occurred during the burning of the chamber contributed to the preservation of clay, bones, and some other organic matter. A layer of brown grass mass up to 1.5 cm thick has been preserved under the skeletons and on ... Read more