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Box Oroche

Title:

Box

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

river Anyui, Ussuri Krai, village Ulema

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Rubrics:

storage

Material:

Wood (birch bark); wood; threads: plant fiber; paint

Dimensions:

height 16.5; diameter max 22.5

Number:

РЭМ 1870-63

Annotation:

Mukhale tapkuni, an ornamented round birch bark box. It is sewn from two pieces of birch bark, reinforced with a stitched wooden rod on the edges. The sides are decorated with slit foliage and geometric ornament. The black curvilinear ornament заключен in red and white triangles. Shown in white triangles is a tiger’s head; in red triangles, a birthing mother’s figure in which a zoomorphic persona is fitted, a spiral snake at the side, and a spiral foliage pattern in the center.

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