Museum of Contemporary Circumpolar Art (MCCA)
ObjectSacred Birds, Holy Dances (Sculpture )
The owl is dressed in a Nenets coat. Behind the owl are 4 owls and a Siberian crane perched on the tips of a reindeer antler. Emerging out of the same piece of reindeer antler is a Siberian crane also dressed in a Nenets coat.
The stone is Canadian, gifted to the artist at a Canadian-Russian workshop starting in tobolsk then travelling on the Ob river to Salekhard, Yamaol-Nenetz AO, Russia.
The crane is a symbol of longevity, harmony and good fortune.
Accession
2007.105
Object Type
Sculpture
Description
Sacred Birds, Holy Dances
Production Year
2003
Production Location
Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets AO, Russia
Materials
Steatite, Reindeer antler, mammoth tusk
Dimensions
H33 x W21 x L32 cm
Provenance
from artist
Exhibitions
- Window to the North: Art of the Inuit and their Neighbours (Gallery of the Museum Payerne), 2011
- Shared Arctic (UBS, Paradeplatz, Zurich, Switzerland), 2006
- Shared Arctic (State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia), 2006
- Shared Arctic (Shemanovsky Museum and Exhibition Complex, Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets AO, Russia), 2006
- Bern, Switzerland, 2005
- Circumpolar Art (Mountain House, Caux, Switzerland), 2004
- Yamal (MCCA), 2012
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