Artworks

Bronze implement with birds on branches

Artwork · Anonymous · 4th century BCE–3rd century BCE · bronze

A fragment of a bronze implement cast with ploughing figures and birds perched on branches — evidence of shamanistic ritual practices like those of Korean shamans today. 1 Portal 2000, p. 36, fig. 18. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.