Flying bird

This is an image of a flying waterfowl. The item has elongated proportions. Also we can see a diamond-shaped head and small round wings. In the semi-oval tail part there is a hole. The edge of the tail is broken off along the hole. 



Manufacturing technique

Traces of scraping, grinding and polishing were found. Paws and tail of a bird were cut with a knife from both sides. The knife was also used for scraping, traces of which can be seen as several parallel long lines in the upper part of the bird. Polishing can be better noticed on the head, the back and the wings. Drilling is both-sided and made with a reamer. 


Storage location

The State Hermitage Museum

Inventory number

370-739

The Museum KAMIS

no

Size

Length – 118.87 mm

Width – 16.50 mm

Thickness - 12.36 mm

Head – 18.37 x 9.3 x 7.15 mm

Body – 53.14 x 16.14 x 12.42 mm

Neck – 45.10 x 6.99 x 6.28 mm

Legs – 11.68 х 4.24 mm

Wings – 17.66 х 23.11 mm

Hole diameter – 3.35 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th. years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasimov M. M.
1929

Publications

Abramova Z. A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR. – M.-L.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1962.  – S. 47. Tabl. XLIX, 8; LII,1.

Volkov P.V., Lbova L.V. Tekhnologicheskie priemy oformleniya ornitomorfnoj skul'ptury iz mal'tinskoj kollekcii // Problemy arheologii, etnografii, antropologii Sibiri i sopredel'nyh territorij: Mat-ly itogovoj sessii In-ta arheologii i etnografii SO RAN 2013 g. – Novosibirsk: Izd-vo In-ta arheologii i etnografii SO RAN, 2013. – T. XIX. – S. 44.

Volkova YU. S. Iskusstvo malyh form Severnoj Azii v epohu verhnego paleolita. – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Kemerovo, 2011. S. 65, 167. Ris.  10-1, 21-3.

Gerasimov M.M. Mal'ta. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka (predvaritel'nye dannye): rezul'taty rabot 1928/29 g. – Irkutsk: Vlast' truda, 1931. S. 24. Tabl. 18, a.

Kamennyj vek YUzhnogo Priangar'ya. Bel'skij geoarheologicheskij rajon. / Medvedev G.I., Slagoda Е.A., Lipnina Е.A., Berdnikova N.Е., Generalov A.G., Rogovskoj Е.O., Oshepkova Е.B., Vorob'eva G.A., SHmygun P.Е. – Irkutsk: Izd-vo IGU, 2001. – T.II. – S. 77. Ris. 27-14.

Lbova L.V., Volkov P.V., Pankina A.I. Tekhnologicheskie aspekty proizvodstva mobil'noj plastiki v verhnem paleolite (zoomorfnaya skul'ptura Mal'ty) // V (XXI) Vserossijskij arheologicheskij s"ezd: sbornik nauchnyh trudov / otv. red. A.P. Derevyanko, A.A. Tishkin. – Barnaul: FGBOU VO «Altajskij gosudarstvennyj universitet», 2017. – S. 608.

Lipnina Е. A. Mal'tinskoe mestonahozhdenie verhnepaleoliticheskih kul'tur: sovremennoe sostoyanie izuchennosti i perspektivy issledovaniya. – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Irkutsk, 2002. S. 148, 183, 223 Ris. 73-10.

Pankina A.I. Ornitomorfnaya skul'ptura stoyanki Mal'ta: klassifikaciya na osnove tekhnologicheskogo analiza // Sovremennye problemy izucheniya drevnih i tradicionnyh kul'tur narodov Еvrazii: matly LVII Ros. (s mezhdunar. uchastiem) arheol.-etnogr. konf. studentov, aspirantov i molodyh uchenyh, g. Surgut, 17–21 aprelya 2017 g. – Novosibirsk: Izd-vo IAET SO RAN, 2017b. – S. 291.

SHmidt I. V. Izobrazitel'noe tvorchestvo v paleolite Severnoj Azii: metodiki interpretacij (istoriograficheskij aspekt). – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Novosibirsk, 2006. – S. 238. Ris. 50.