The nine bronze bells hanging from the occupant' waistbelt,
unearthed in the Tomb No. 38 in Deliesidui, Russia are just the
same as those used in Shamantic reli gious ceremonies This discovery indicates that the Xiongnu occupant is very likely to be a woman Shaman and it also suggests that metal waistbelts had already come into existence in the Xiongnu Age. There are also some glass beads and strings of stone beads hanging from the waistbelt, which have the same functions as the bells.The beads are the primitiue form of "waisthells". The gold emage of godess un earthed in the No. 7 Turkic tomb in Guoyi-bala, Russia, the godess may have been the first ancestor for shamanism. The decorated
ornaments unearthed in the Nuzhen tombs from Liao Dynasty and Mohe tombs had originated from the Xiongnu open work ornaments. The excavation of bronze openwork ornaments and bells in Vuzhen tombs from Ming Dynasty in Liaoning province reflects the fact that the use of this kind of ornament had extened to Ming Dynasty