Journal of Eurasian Studies - EPA

April‐June 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 2.
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Our Siberian art booklet can only taste this huge exhibition topics, but it is important to know that it is
still a living art in the regions of the Baikal‐Lake, Altai‐Mountains, Dzhungaria, Southern‐Siberia, and
Central‐Asia. We also show an example by the recent bronze and sculpture art of Dashi Namdakov,
Buriatia.
Next to the bronze art today there is another living cultural heritage in Siberia: the Shamanism. The
artistic tools of shamanism have also deep roots in the past. The most well‐known tools are the drums and
the crowns of the shaman. The world of shamanism was studied and revealed by Vilmos Diószegi and
Mihály Hoppál (and many other scholars) in the context of ethnographical traditions surveyed in
Hungary and Siberia.
Fig. 6. Shaman drums are frequently decorated by the celestial constellations (like the Mezopotamian
stone), but also the spiritula mythic life scenes and real life represeantations can be found on them.
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