25: Room of the Culture and Art of the Nomadic Tribes of the Altai in the 6th to 4th century B.C.
Top-piece in the form of a large griffin's head with a deer's head in its beak
5th century B.C.
2nd Pazyryk burial mound, Altai Mountains
Russia
Wood and leather; carved
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