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Neenku sevokhi image. Udege

Title:

Neenku sevokhi image

Ethnic groups:

Udege

Territory:

river Dymni, Primorsky Oblast, Ussuri Krai

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Wood; fur: natural: hide (red fox); fur: natural: hide (Siberian Roe Deer – Capreolus pygargus Pallas); paint; glass: colored glass

Dimensions:

height 49.0

Number:

РЭМ 1870-49

Annotation:

It is a wooden figurine that combines anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features. The nose, mouth, superciliary arches are clearly carved on the face; eyes are marked by blue beads. Four-fingered paws are instead of hands, legs are low, four-fingered. Small protrusion indicates a tail at the back of the figurine. The head and torso are covered with red fox fur, in front there is a plate made of dressed leather with drawings. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
Изображение севохи «неенку» против общего расстройства. Удэгейцы
Links:
Video-story Basic Principle of V.K. Arseniev in the Acquisition of Ethnographic Objects