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Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu
Serving board

Rectangular plate on a large base. The inner surface is generously generously cut out and decorated with an X shape in the centre, surrounded by a double circle with four points. The clearly offset, wide and horizontal rim is decorated with engraved lines. Plates of this type were used to serve fish and meat, and were also used to serve to serve fish and meat. They are carved from different types of wood and often decorated with patterns. This plate has a notch on the rim, which either resulted from its use or was made use or was made to release the kamuy (souls/powerful beings) residing in the utensil before it was used. entities) before it was passed on.

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
serving trays
Dimensions
29 x 285 x 237 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 25366
Other number(s)
RJM 1910/05

Provenance and sources

when
19th century
where
Russian Federation
Asia -> North Asia -> Russian Federation -> Far East (Federal District) -> Sakhalin Oblast

when
1907

when
1910-15-05
Source(s)
Konvolutakte RJM 1910/05

when
1910-15-05
Source(s)
Konvolutakte RJM 1910/05
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