Evenki Shaman's Costume
Ceremonial cloak of the Evenki shaman, sewn from reindeer hide and hung with iron pendants shaped as birds, fish, deer, snakes and human figures that represent the shaman's spirit-helpers, with a fringed apron and iron rattles. The costume is preserved in the collections of the Russian Museum of Ethnography and Siberian regional museums. Each pendant is forged to correspond to a spirit that the shaman called upon, and their number and variety grew with the shaman's rank and experience. The cloak is worn over the ordinary clothes with an apron and a headdress, and the iron objects ring together