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Unyakha spoon. Oroche

Title:

Unyakha spoon

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

river Tumnin, Ussuri Krai, Soviet harbor, village Khutu-Data

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Wood

Dimensions:

length 39.5

Number:

РЭМ 1870-8

Annotation:

Wooden spoon with a leaf-like shallow blade and a bent handle. The handle is decorated at its end with carving, and has a diamond-shaped hole and a round hole. Wooden spoons were made by men, and kept in the female part of the dwelling place. They were often hung on a nail by the shaped holes in the handle.

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