Anthropomorphic Wooden Figures from the Trans-Urals
Anthropomorphic Wooden Figures from the Trans-Urals
N.M. Chairkina.
Anthropomorphic wooden fi gures found in peat-bogs east of the Urals are described. Their archaeological context, chronology, and stylistics are analyzed. The Uralian specimens are compared with those from Western and Eastern Europe. The possible meaning of these representations is reconstructed on the basis of Ob Ugrian rituals and mythology.
