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Photograph: Fragment of a Shaman’s chum. Evenki: Evenks

Title:

Photograph: Fragment of a Shaman’s chum.

Ethnic groups:

Evenki: Evenks

Territory:

Krasnoyarsk Krai

Date:

1907-1908 гг.

Collectors-person:
Photographer:
Maslennikov Konstantin A.
Dimensions:

11,5 x 17,1

Number:

РЭМ 5659-96

Annotation:

In the foreground is an image of the mammoth ghost playing an important role in the Evenki’s view of creation of the world. The footwalk constructed at the Shaman’s chum symbolizes the shaman river in the shaman’s communication with deities of the Upper and Nether Worlds. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva