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Cuckoo’s image. Oroche

Title:

Cuckoo’s image

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

river Kusun, Ussuri Krai

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Wood; paint

Dimensions:

length 36.0; width 10.6

Number:

РЭМ 1870-42

Annotation:

Kokoo, a shamanic cult object. An image of cuckoo carved from wood, with a tail, wings, a stretched neck and a head. The body is elongated. Lines are slit in the tail. Eyes and a beak are marked on the head. Stripes in two colors are applied to the figure. At the bottom is a hole for fitting on a pole. Usually, it was installed at the shaman’s dwelling place or at the shaman’s place of prayer. The cuckoo was the image of the shaman’s helper ghost.

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
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