Charm Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Aug 1919
name: label: Donor Name
content: Vladimir K. Arseniev (Arsenyev, Arseneff)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved from wood in form of human figure without arms."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=683 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Figure. Siberian shamans were intermediaries between people and spirits. Through their visions and magical practices they sought to bring success in hunting and herding, to predict the future, and to cure illness. This armless Ulcha or Nanay carving represents an illness spirit or sevon, and the cut marks on its chest may signify that it was the bringer of lung disease.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Habarovsk (Khabarovsk), Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siberian
label: Culture
content: Goldi (Nanai) (?)
label: Culture
content: Orok (Ulcha, Ulta) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 063972
label: USNM Number
content: E309967-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25 cm