iku-pasuy

Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Libation spatula

These spatulas, which are often decorated with rich carvings ritual sake drinking (kamuynomi) to deliver prayers/prayers to the kamuy (souls/powerful beings). prayers/requests. The decorations include geometric patterns, which often the origins of the ikupasuy, or cut-outs and figurative representations such as fish or whales. fish or whales. The flat wooden stick, slightly rounded at the top, is decorated over three quarters of its length with engraved notched curves set one above the other. At the front end a "tongue" (parunpe), the other end cut off almost straight. On both sides on the upper side four notches offset against each other as ownership marks (itokpa). On the underside two further property marks incised on the underside, which were assigned to the so-called killer whale group (rep-un-kamuy). were assigned.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
ceremonial objects
Dimensions
7 x 311 x 27 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 25424
Other number(s)
RJM 1910/05 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

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