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Dörögdі, a bundle of helper ghosts from the ritual clothes of a deceased shaman. Evenki

Title:

Dörögdі, a bundle of helper ghosts from the ritual clothes of a deceased shaman.

Ethnic groups:

Evenki

Territory:

East Siberia, Turukhansk Krai, Yenisei province

Date:

кон. XIX в.

Material:

Wood; metal: iron; leather: natural leather: suede: skin suede; threads (rope)

Collectors-person:
Ostrovskih Petr Ye.
Number:

РЭМ 730-49

Annotation:

It consists of two anthropomorphic iron figurines whose features are defined by coining, and two wooden images of salmon trout fish. In the perception of the Northern group of the Evenki, the salmon trout is the shaman’s main helper ghost during a rite, helping him travel along the mythical shaman river. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva