A black-and-white ethnographic photograph taken during Maria Czaplicka's 1914-15 expedition to the Yenisei region of Siberia, showing an Evenki shaman standing with his drum, part of a wider set of images and objects she brought back to Oxford. The photograph documents the shaman's dress and drum as material culture: it is a record of who the practitioner was and what he carried, not an account of any rite performed with it. Czaplicka, one of the first women to undertake fieldwork of this kind in Siberia, later published her findings and the collection remains at the Pitt Rivers Museum, where later scholars have returned to her images and field notes to revisit the anthropology of Siberian shamanism.
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Custody
Current LocationPitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford 1 Current Custodian Custody HistoryTaken by Maria Czaplicka during her 1914-15 Yenisei expedition; brought to Oxford as part of the Czaplicka collection; held by the Pitt Rivers Museum since. 1 Medium (class) Physical Form
MediumSilver gelatin photographic print 1 Origins
CountryRussia (Siberia, findspot); United Kingdom (current location) 1 Subject Matter
Depicted SubjectAn Evenki shaman standing with his drum, photographed in the field; regalia and instrument only, no ritual act depicted. 2 Rights and Reproduction
Reproduction and CopyrightThis atlas describes and cites the photograph rather than reproducing it, and describes only the material culture the image records, not any ritual practice. 1 Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Source The Czaplicka Collection (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
Sources
1. The Czaplicka Collection (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
2. A Visitor's Guide to Shamans and Shamanism (Sibirica, Volume 19)
Berghahn Journalscatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A black-and-white ethnographic photograph taken during Maria Czaplicka's 1914-15 expedition to the Yenisei region of Siberia, showing an Evenki shaman standing with his drum, part of a wider set of images and objects she brought back to Oxford.
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