{"id":"RUSIN-001","label":"Mansi Shchekurya wind-calling flying board","people_or_site":"Mansi / Ob-Ugric","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Khanty-Mansi / Yugra / Berezovsky District","macroregion":"Siberia / West Siberia","local_name":"вōт вōвнэ товлыӈ пāрт / vot vovne tovlyng part","source_term":"wind-calling flying board / rotating aerophone 412.21","source_language":"Russian","object_description":"A thin plank spun on a cord; distinct from the two-hole children's toy buzzers it survived alongside.","function_summary":"Former magical and shamanic instrument for changing the weather; also used at the Bear Games.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"SOLDATOVA2019_MANSI_WIND_BOARD","source_type":"academic_pdf","source_url":"https://www.trad-culture.ru/sites/default/files/files_pdf/TK-2019-4-Soldatova_0.pdf","page_or_plate":"pp. 51-52; photo field materials September 1987 Shchekurya","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Shchekurya village anchor from Soldatova photo/PMA 1987; not a sacred or exact use site","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Mansi of the Ob basin, a thin rotating plank was once a shaman's instrument, spun to summon or change the wind and sounded at the Bear Games, the great Ob-Ugric bear feast. Its very name preserves the lost purpose: the ethnographer I. A. Bogdanov recorded it as a \"board that calls wind by rotating,\" which Galina Soldatova renders more precisely as вōт вōвнэ товлыӈ пāрт, \"wind-calling flying board.\" The board stands apart from the children's whirled disc buzzers (Mansi пыгалтоп, ларгалтап; Khanty щовкан) that survive alongside it; by the time Soldatova's team photographed an example at Shchekurya village in 1987, it too had dwindled into a child's toy. The memory of its power lingered among the Khanty: when Soldatova played the instrument's sound at a conference, the ethnographer T. A. Moldanov warned that the weather would now turn windy and that an incantation for fair weather would have to be spoken.","pull_quote":"По словам В. Шесталова, она использовалась как шаманский инструмент для изменения погоды и на медвежьих игрищах.","pull_quote_translation":"According to V. Shestalov, it was used as a shaman's instrument for changing the weather and at the Bear Games.","pull_quote_cite":"Soldatova 2019, Traditsionnaya kul'tura 20(4):51–52 (citing Shestalov 2013:74)","term_gloss":"вōт вōвнэ товлыӈ пāрт (vot vovne tovlyng part), Mansi: \"wind-calling flying board\" — the rotating plank spun to raise or change the wind.","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"etymology":"Mansi вōт \"wind\" + вōвнэ \"calling\" + товлыӈ \"flying\" + пāрт \"board\": \"wind-calling flying board.\" вōт is cognate with Khanty вот, as in vot vokhty, \"to ask for wind.\"","literal_gloss":"wind-calling flying board","semantic_cluster":"wind; weather","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Galina E. Soldatova, “Факультативные фоноинструменты обских угров,” Традиционная культура 20(4) (2019):44–56, pp. 51–52; citing Bogdanov (1981) and Shestalov (2013), p. 74","url":"https://www.trad-culture.ru/sites/default/files/files_pdf/TK-2019-4-Soldatova_0.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20230603111510/https://www.trad-culture.ru/sites/default/files/files_pdf/TK-2019-4-Soldatova_0.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Galina E. Soldatova, “Факультативные фоноинструменты обских угров,” Традиционная культура 20(4) (2019):44–56, pp. 51–52; citing Bogdanov (1981) and Shestalov (2013), p. 74","source_display":"Galina E. Soldatova, “Факультативные фоноинструменты обских угров,” Традиционная культура 20(4) (2019):44–56, pp. 51–52; citing Bogdanov (1981) and Shestalov (2013), p. 74","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A thin plank spun on a cord; distinct from the two-hole children's toy buzzers it survived alongside.","function_display":"Former magical and shamanic instrument for changing the weather; also used at the Bear Games.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mansi","display_name":"Mansi Shchekurya wind-calling flying board","image":{"full":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/soldatova2019_mansi_windboard_photo4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/soldatova2019_mansi_windboard_photo4_thumb.jpg","alt":"Pale, gently tapered Mansi wind-calling plank, with a cord looped through one end.","credit":"G. E. Soldatova, Традиционная культура 20:4 (2019), photo 4 (field photo K. A. Sagalaev, 1987)","license":"In copyright — open-access journal figure, rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://trad-culture.ru/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A pale, gently tapered Mansi wind-summoning plank photographed loose."},"slug":"rusin-001-mansi-ob-ugric"}