Mugde - Image of shaman's ancestor

Evenks

East Siberia, Yenisei Guberniya

late 19th century

Wood; metal: iron; metal: brass; cloth: cotton; glass (beads); leather: leather: leather: leather (elk); glass: colored glass; fur: fur (red squirrel); fur: fur; bone: bone; fiber: wool: reindeer hair under neck; fur: fur

diameter 20.0; height 29.5

Peoples of Siberia and Far East

РЭМ 1757-10

It is made of a curved ring-shaped root (butt) of the “family tree” (larch), where the souls of the future shamans of the clan “grew”. The image of the shaman's ancestor was one of the first and main attributes of the shaman. According to the Evenks, Mugde determined the paths of the shaman, gave advice and songs.