Flying bird

This is an image of a flying waterfowl. The item has elongated proportions, the lower part of a statuette is flattened. In the wings area the figurine is convex on both sides, moreover, the upper part is sloping, so it creates a special view of drooped wings. The figurine has round wings. They are divided from back and tummy by deep relief. In the tail part there is a hole.  



Manufacturing technique

When shaping, a push-plane and a planing knife were used. The hole was made with a reamer.  


Use-wear traces

Polishing, use-wear traces of hanging from both sides of the hole.


Storage location

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (The Kunstkamera)

Inventory number

5406-401

The Museum KAMIS

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Size

Length – 65 mm

Width – 13 mm

Thickness - 5 mm

Hole diameter – 4 x 2.5 x 2.5 mm

Wings – 13.31 mm

Head – 5.99 mm 

Neck – 4.69 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th. years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasimov M. M.
1932

Publications

Abramova Z. A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR. – M.-L.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1962.  –  Tabl. LII, 10.

Verhnij paleolit. Obrazy, simvoly, znaki. Katalog predmetov iskusstva malyh form iz arheologicheskogo sobraniya MAE RAN. / Otv. redaktor G.A. Hlopachev. – SPb.: Ekstraprint, 2016. – S. 192.

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 Еvrazii: mat-ly 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.