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Cuckoo’s image. Oroche

Title:

Cuckoo’s image

Ethnic groups:

Oroche

Territory:

river Bikin, Ussuri Krai, village Lokhozen

Date:

late 19th - early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Arseniev Vladimir K.
Material:

Wood; wood

Dimensions:

length 21.5; length 23.5

Number:

РЭМ 1870-43/2

Annotation:

Kokoo, a shamanic cult object. A wooden image of cuckoo. It was placed on a pole installed at the shaman’s dwelling place or at the shaman’s place of prayer. The cuckoo was the image of the shaman’s helper ghost.

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