Margolis Richard. Ancient bronze art and ethnographic objects from Siberia and the Urals

Kindle Direct Publishing. — Seattle, 2023. — 309 p.This is the first broad survey of ancient bronze art from northwestern Siberia and the Urals, dating from around 500 BC to the late Middle Ages and that is generally unknown outside of Russia. The book also covers equally unfamiliar but artistically striking ritual and other ethnographic objects made by indigenous peoples across Siberia and the Far East during the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The book includes information concerning the historical background, fabrication and uses of objects selected from museum and private collections and Russian professional publications, documented by more than 450 mostly color illustrations.Introduction.
Acknowledgements.
Maps.
Urals.
Itkul culture ornithomorphic figures (seventh to third centuries BC).
Northwestern Siberia.
Early Iron Age copper alloy casts (third century BC to fourth century AD).
Kulai culture bronzes.
Ust-Polui culture and its later developments. Medieval zoomorphic bronze casts and anthropomorphic decorations.
Zoomorphic bronze figures (first millennium AD).
Anthropomorphic figures and decorations or amulets (middle to late first millennium).
Kama/Urals silver burial masks (ninth to eleventh century).
Pendants (seventeenth to nineteenth century).
Guardian spirit figures and related protective images of the Khanty, Mansi and Selkups (eighteenth century and later).
Ittarma dolls, loses, and other guardian spirit figures.
Figures from the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region and the Salym, Agan and.
Vasyugan Rivers.
Metal frogs and related castings.
Sacred covers of the Mansi and Khanty.
Iron arrowheads and a ritual arrow from Southern Siberia (eighth to tenth century).
Bears and bear ceremonialism (fifth to early twentieth century).
Eastern Siberia and the Far East (eighteenth century and later).
Nanai protective spirit figures and birch bark ornamentation.
Shaman’s paraphernalia and ongons.
The Yakut kumys festival.
References.