SIBIRICA. EIN BEITRAG ZUR KENNTNIS DER VORGESCHICHTE UND KULTUR SIBIRISCHER VÖLKER.

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Stockholm 1897. 38x23. VI+46 pp. text + 36 leaves with descriptive text to the plates + 35 plates with almost 400 photos. 103 additional drawings and photos of Ostyaks, their dwelling houses, garments, tools, ornament, etc. in the text. Loose as issued in original green cloth portfolio with red lettering "F.R. MARTIN, SIBIRISCHE SAMMLUNG" etc. on front cover. The last plate and its text leaf slightly rumpled/chipped in uppermost and bottom margin respectively, otherwise a very fine copy of this rare publication.

F.R. Martin's account of his ethnographical explorations in Siberia in the 1890s. This was Martin's first expedition, funded by a grant from the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography. On the first twenty-three plates there are ca 180 photos of Ostyak artefacts from the Yugan area: bows, arrows and quivers, fishing gear, hunting traps, snowshoes, clothes and garments, pouches, cradles, troughs and ladles and other household ware, wooden jars, baskets, woodworking and leathercraft tools, sleighs, harnesses, drums and string instruments, idols and cult objects, drawings on paper, etc. Martin's Siberian expedition incorporated a visit to the museum in Minusinsk, and on the last twelve plates there are ca 220 photos of Bronze Age and earlier objects in the museum, including 190 arrowheads.

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