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Box to keep chopsticks. Oroche

Title:

Box to keep chopsticks

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

river Samarga, Ussuri Krai, village Muhtuhu on Samarga river

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Rubrics:

storage

Material:

Wood (birch bark); bone (brown bear); glass: colored glass; cloth: cotton; threads: plant fiber: cotton (rope); leather; metal; wood; wood

Dimensions:

height 22.5; diameter 8.5; diameter of mouth 9.6

Number:

РЭМ 1870-66

Annotation:

Tall, cylindrical birch bark box. The entire wall surface is ornamented with a curvilinear pattern depicting a bear’s face and the figures of two ancestor snakes. It is decorated on top with strings of beads tied to it and with bear’s penises as symbols of fertility. Such boxes were given to a woman from her mother as dowry, with wishes to have many healthy children. The box was used for keeping chopsticks.

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