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Shaman's breastplate. Udege

Title:

Shaman's breastplate

Ethnic groups:

Udege

Territory:

river Kusun, Primorsky Oblast, Ussuri Krai

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Fur (brown bear); leather (elk – Alces alces); paint; fur (red squirrel – Sciurus vulgaris); cloth (cotton); threads: plant fiber: cotton; metal: iron

Dimensions:

length 77.0; width 20.0

Number:

РЭМ 1870-39

Annotation:

Rectangular leather breastplate with two wide straps made of brown and black vertical rectangles. On the horizontal rectangular base of the breastplate there are 5 iron figurines of lizards (myaonki - a genus of sevokhi). Two similar figurines of lizards are attached to the bottom of the belts. The breastplate was trimmed all around with fur. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
Нагрудник шамана «Исэлэ». Удэгейцы