Carved image of the spirit protector for hunting and fishing

Image by the Russian Museum of Ethnography
The anthropomorphic figure is rendered without arms or legs and has a pointed head with rough facial features. It stood in the taiga on a sacred place in Pam-pugol on the Ob River.

Khant.
Tobolsk region, Beryozovsky District, late nineteenth century.

Wood.

Length 89 cm, width, 10 cm, diameter 7 cm.

Coll. No. 1711-581.

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