No. | 42 |
Description | Bear head carving |
Site | Tokoro-chashi Site Okhotsk Locality: from the fill of Pit House 7 |
Size (cm) | H. 3.5 |
Period | Late stage of Okhotsk culture |
Date | 8-9th century |
Possessor | Tokoro Research Laboratory |
Comment | Realistic carving of a bear head made of deer antler. Although the lower part is missing, it originally could have had a stick form. The find was excavated from the upper part of a bone mound in a pit dwelling. This suggests the process of animal ritual in the Okhotsk culture. |