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Box with a lid. Oroche

Title:

Box with a lid

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

river Hungari, Ussuri Krai, village Khodchya

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Material:

Cotton, birch bark, plant fiber, cotton, skin suede, paint

Dimensions:

height 8.0; diameter 29.0

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Number:

РЭМ 1870-64

Annotation:

Mokhi, a birch bark box with a quadrangular bottom, ornamented, with an oval lid; the box’s ornament is multicolor, sewn on to the walls, and just slightly embossed on the lid; the id is trimmed with a blue fabric strip. The pattern contains two spiral snakes and a pair of red spirals. The narrower side of the box shows a bear’s head and two snakes in a spiral. A double spiral against a light background is traced on the lid.

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

storage

Rus:
Коробка с крышкой. Орочи