Pendant to the shaman’s costume.
Evenki
East Siberia, Yenisei province, Turukhansk Krai
втор. пол. XIX в.
Metal: iron; leather
РЭМ 730-52
An anthropomorphic iron figurine with arms stretched sideways and holding a bow and an arrow. The figurine’s front is covered with coined linear ornament. Such figurine could be part of the “guard” (darisil) standing on the shaman’s river, near the border between the upper and nether worlds. The darisil prevented return of a ded person’s soul sent to the world of the dead. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva
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