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Sevokhi bear - image of deity - master over bears, master of taiga, asistant to a shaman. Oroche

Title:

Sevokhi bear - image of deity - master over bears, master of taiga, asistant to a shaman

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

Far East, river Tumnin, Primorsky Oblast, Ussuri Krai, village Khutu-Data

Date:

early 20th centuries

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Paint; wood; glass: colored glass; fur: natural: hide (brown bear)

Number:

РЭМ 1870-5

Annotation:

The wooden figure of a bear is covered with a piece of bear skin. The Orochi believed that it lived on lunar land. Before the hunt, the figurine was “fed”, lubricating the mouth with fat, porridge. and asked for good luck in the fishery. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva

Albums:
“... You can rely on me”: Vladimir Arseniev’s collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography
Rus:
Севохи «мафа» (медведь) - изображение духа-хозяина медведей, хозяина тайги, помощника шамана. Орочи
Links:
Valentina Gorbachova. Basic Principle of V.K. Arseniev in the Acquisition of Ethnographic Objects