Reindeer herd, sculpture

Chukchee

Chukotka Autonomous Region

1966

Decorations/jewelry, bone carving

Animal derived materials: tooth: tusk (walrus); fibers: animal: barb

length 26.5; width max 6.2

РЭМ 13153-45

This multi-figure sculpture composition of walrus tusk shows a man traveling on a reindeer team of two riding deer. The figurine of a deer herdsman wearing traditional fur clothes is fixed on the central part of a riding arched-stanchion sled. The driver handles the deer using a prod. The deer and sled are fixed on a rectangular stand, on whose sides is a color engraved narrative drawing ‘Riding a Reindeer Team.’ Created by Nikolai Kililoi, Member of the USSR Union of Artists, in 1966. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva