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Photograph: Offering to the ghost Master of Water. Nenets
Title:
Photograph: Offering to the ghost Master of Water.
Ethnic groups:
Nenets
Territory:
Gydan Peninsula, Krai
Date:
1927
Collectors-person:
Kostikov Leonid V.
Photographer:
Kostiko L.V.
Dimensions:
9 x 12
Number:
РЭМ 4785-115
Annotation:
Twice a year, in spring and autumn, a deer calf was offered to Id yerv, Master of Water, for good luck in fishing. Some of the sacrificial blood was poured out to the water. The deer skull was put on a pole and left onshore. One of the fish caught in the last seine was placed under the skull. The ground around it was strewn with ash taken from the hearth. Abstract by I.A. Karapetova
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