No. | 41 |
Description | Bone bear carving |
Site | Tokoro-chashi Site Okhotsk Locality: from the fill of Pit House 8 |
Size (cm) | L. 3.5 |
Period | Late stage of Okhotsk culture |
Date | 8-9th century |
Possessor | Tokoro Research Laboratory |
Comment | This specimen is made of deer antler, expressing the head and body of a bear. There are expressions of ropes on the neck and the back of the bear. The form resembles a rope used to tie a bear cub at the Bear-sending Ceremony (Iyomante) of the Ainu culture, and the relevance is currently being investigated. |