The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ection of such images which I madeis here reproduced in woodcuts. If, also, these carvings may, infact, be considered as representations of higher beings, thereligious ideas which are connected with them, even judgedfrom the Shaman standpoint, are exceedingly indistinct, less aconsciousness, which still lives among the people, than a re-miniscence from former times. Most of the figures bear anevident stamp of the present dress and mode of life of thepeople. It ap
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ection of such images which I madeis here reproduced in woodcuts. If, also, these carvings may, infact, be considered as representations of higher beings, thereligious ideas which are connected with them, even judgedfrom the Shaman standpoint, are exceedingly indistinct, less aconsciousness, which still lives among the people, than a re-miniscence from former times. Most of the figures bear anevident stamp of the present dress and mode of life of thepeople. It appears to me to be remarkable, that in all thebone or wood carvings I have met with, the face has been cutflatter than it is in reality in this race of men. Some of thecarvings appear to remind me of an ancient Buddhist image. The drum, or more correctly, tambourine, so common amongmost of the Polar peoples, European, Asiatic, and American ;among the Lapps, the Samoyeds, the Tunguses, and the Eskim(j(see drawing on p. 415), is found in every Chukch tent. Acertain superstition is also attached to it. They did not willingly f:iik.
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