Big Goose

This is an image of a waterfowl (a goose) in flight. The item has elongated proportions, the back is convex and marked with a deep relief, the abdomen is flattened. The wings of subrectangular shape are separated by deep relief line from the back and abdomen. The diamond-shaped head is partially lost. In the tail part there is a hole.



Manufacturing technique

Traces of shaping are overlapped by polishing. Traces of work with a knife are found in the area between the tail and legs.


Use-wear traces

Use-wear traces are not found due to a poor quality of preservation of the surface.


Storage location

The State Historical Museum of Russia

Inventory number

1820-210

The Museum KAMIS

no

Size

Length - 142.34 mm

Width - 24.36 mm

Thickness: on the back - 11.22 mm, on the neck - 8.25 mm

The diameter of the hole - 05.85 х 03.15 mm

Wings - 32.14 x 6 mm

Legs - 13,41 х 9.1 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th. years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasimov M. M.
1956

Publications

Abramova Z. A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR. – M.-L.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1962.  – S. 48. Tabl. LII, 9.

Volkova YU. S. Iskusstvo malyh form Severnoj Azii v ehpohu verhnego paleolita. – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Kemerovo, 2011. S. 169-170. Ris.  10-6.

Gerasimov M. M. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka Mal'ta (raskopki 1956–1957 gg.)// SEH. – 1958. -  № 3. S. 46. Ris. 16, a.

 Kamennyj vek YUzhnogo Priangar'ya. Bel'skij geoarheologicheskij rajon. / Medvedev G.I., Slagoda E.A., Lipnina E.A., Berdnikova N.E., Generalov A.G., Rogovskoj E.O., Oshepkova E.B., Vorob'eva G.A., SHmygun P.E. – Irkutsk: Izd-vo IGU, 2001. – T.II. – S. 77, 83. Ris. 27-13. 

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.

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

 U istokov iskusstva: katalog vystavki / [sost. Z. A. Abramova, M. V. Anikovich, M. D. Gvozdover i dr.]. - Leningrad: EHrmitazh, 1979. – S. 30.