{"id":"DOBZHANSKAYA2006-001","label":"Kyrlyush, the Telengit humming plate","people_or_site":"Telengit","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Altai Republic, Ulagan and Kosh-Agach districts (southeastern Altai)","macroregion":"Siberia / South Siberia","local_name":"kyrlyush (кырлюш)","source_term":"вращаемая гуделка-аэрофон (rotated hummer-aerophone)","source_language":"Russian","object_description":"A rectangular wooden plate whirled to make it hum.","function_summary":"Children's sound toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"dobzhanskaya2006_telengit_music","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://iea-ras.ru/?p=540","page_or_plate":"p. 530","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Ulagan settlement as a representative point for Telengit country (Ulagan and Kosh-Agach districts); the source names no village for the toy.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A rectangular plate of wood, whirled until it hums, was one of the sound toys of Telengit children in the high valleys of the southeastern Altai. They called it kyrlyush, and gave the same name to a second toy, a spinning buzzer that once had a part in funeral rites. Both belonged to a herders' world full of working sounds: a trumpet to lure the maral stag, a willow whistle for the chipmunk, a call for the roe deer, bells on horses, cows and goats, a shepherd's rattling staff, and the shaman's drum, its handle carved as a human figure, for speaking with spirits.","pull_quote":"вращаемая гуделка-аэрофон из прямоугольной деревянной пластины","pull_quote_translation":"a rotated hummer-aerophone made of a rectangular wooden plate","pull_quote_cite":"O. E. Dobzhanskaya, «Музыкальная культура», in Тюркские народы Сибири (2006), p. 530.","term_gloss":"kyrlyush (кырлюш): the Telengit name shared by two children's sound toys, the whirled wooden plate and a spinning vortex buzzer. abyrga (абырга): a trumpet used to call the maral stag. tezim tüngür (тезим тюнгюр): the shaman's drum.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"O. E. Dobzhanskaya, «Музыкальная культура» (Telengit chapter), in D. A. Funk and N. A. Tomilov (eds.), Тюркские народы Сибири (Moscow: Nauka, 2006), p. 530","url":"https://iea-ras.ru/?p=540"}],"source_citations":"O. E. Dobzhanskaya, «Музыкальная культура» (Telengit chapter), in D. A. Funk and N. A. Tomilov (eds.), Тюркские народы Сибири (Moscow: Nauka, 2006), p. 530","source_display":"O. E. Dobzhanskaya, «Музыкальная культура» (Telengit chapter), in D. A. Funk and N. A. Tomilov (eds.), Тюркские народы Сибири (Moscow: Nauka, 2006), p. 530","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A rectangular wooden plate whirled to make it hum.","function_display":"Children's sound toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"telengit","display_name":"Kyrlyush, the Telengit humming plate","image":{"full":"assets/objects/RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39898_middle_ob.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39898_middle_ob_thumb.jpg","alt":"Middle Ob zúgattyú NM 39898, a rounded rectangular wooden blade painted with dark human figures and other motifs.","credit":"Néprajzi Múzeum, Budapest, NM 39898","license":"Museum record marked 'Creative commons license' (variant unstated) — rehosted low-res","source_page":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/en/collection/item/101180246/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Middle Ob zúgattyú NM 39898, painted with human figures","pool_id":"auto-RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39898_middle_ob","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"dobzhanskaya2006-001-telengit"}