shaman's effigy or doll (ongon)
skin, wood, textiles, pigment, and other materials
height: 35 cm
Mongolia
19th century
acquired by Jack Daulton from a source in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
See generally: Nicolas Breeze Wood, "Dolls and Ritual: The Use of Human Effigies in Shamanism and Sorcery," Sacred Hoop, Issue 101 (2018), pgs. 30-37, esp. 32 (illustration of Siberian shaman's ongon doll)
