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. Libation spatulas, cut into a tongue shape (parunpe) and rounded at one end rounded, the other cut flat with a slight rounding. On the surface with engraved motifs carved in shallow relief in the form of five four-petalled flowers each in a circle, plus a further motif near the tongue. At the bottom four offset against each other at the bottom and four notches twice at the top, which are ownership marks.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
ceremonial objects
Dimensions
341 x 36 x 8 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 10684
Other number(s)
RJM 1899/01 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Japan
    Asia -> East-Asia -> Japan -> North-Japan -> Hokkaido
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Asia
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Not clarified
    when
    between April and May 1881
    where
    Hokkaido
    who
    Joest, Wilhelm - Former Possessors
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