Author: MARTIN, FREDRIK ROBERT:
Title: Sibirica. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Vorgeschichte und Kultur sibirischer Völker. Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1897.
Description: . Folio. Pp. (vi), 41, (4). With 35 full page plates and 36 leaves with descriptive text. Many textual illustrations. Bound in original green cloth folder, cotton ties (one missing), recased, rubbed and new title label on spine. First edition of an ethnographical and archaeological expedition to Western Siberia. The plates depict utensils, clothes, baskets, tools, instruments etc of the Jugan Ostyaks, objects found in Minusinsk from the Bronze and Iron ages, and shaman drums of the Black Tartars in the Altai Mountains. Fredrik Martin was a renowned Swedish orientalist who made several expeditions to Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia in the 1890s. Arne, Svenskarna och Österlandet, pp. 307 & 331.

Keywords: Europe, siberia, siberian, russia, russian, russe, ostjak, yugan, minusinsk, ethnography, ethnographical, archaeology,


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