{"id":"RUSIN-004","label":"Khanty vot vokhty asking-for-wind whirler (Kazym)","people_or_site":"Khanty","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Kazym river, Beloyarsky district, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug; dialect terms also from the Salym, Vakh-Vasyugan and Surgut Khanty","macroregion":"Siberia / West Siberia","local_name":"вот вохты (Kazym); пэрхэттэх (Salym); пухлы (Vakh-Vasyugan); коркимох (Surgut)","source_term":"жужжалка: вихревая (пропеллер) и вращаемая (\"buzzer: whirring [propeller] and swung\")","source_language":"Russian","object_description":"A blade swung on a line to produce a whirring sound.","function_summary":"Wind-summoning sound instrument, later chiefly a children’s toy; its Kazym name means “to ask for wind.”","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"arctic_megapedia_khanty","source_type":"web_encyclopedia","source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20190309034043/http://arctic-megapedia.ru:80/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2","page_or_plate":"Arctic Megapedia «Музыка хантов» (Wayback 2019-03-09)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Kazym river regional anchor (the dialect whose name encodes wind-asking)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the Kazym River, the Khanty called the whirler vot vokhty—“to ask for wind.” A blade circling on its line turned that request into sound. By the time the name was recorded, the weather-maker survived chiefly as a children’s toy.","pull_quote":"2 разновидности жужжалки, вихревая (пропеллер) и вращаемая, имеют одно название... вот вохты («ветер просить»).","pull_quote_translation":"Two varieties of the buzzer — a whirring propeller and a swung one — bear a single name... vot vokhty (\"to ask for wind\").","pull_quote_cite":"«Музыка хантов», Arctic Megapedia (Sheikin school), archived copy, 2019-03-09","term_gloss":"вот вохты (vot vokhty, Kazym) = \"to ask for 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":"вот вохты (vot vokhty): Kazym Khanty вот \"wind\" (cognate with Mansi вōт of the wind-calling flying board) + вохты \"to ask\": \"to ask for wind.\"","literal_gloss":"to ask for wind","semantic_cluster":"weather; wind; magic","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Музыка хантов' (Sheikin school; archived 9 March 2019)","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20190309034043/http://arctic-megapedia.ru:80/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2"}],"source_citations":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Музыка хантов' (Sheikin school; archived 9 March 2019)","source_display":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Музыка хантов' (Sheikin school; archived 9 March 2019)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A blade swung on a line to produce a whirring sound.","function_display":"Wind-summoning sound instrument, later chiefly a children’s toy; its Kazym name means “to ask for wind.”","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"khanty","display_name":"Khanty vot vokhty asking-for-wind whirler (Kazym)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39893_middle_ob.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39893_middle_ob_thumb.jpg","alt":"Ob-Ugric bullroarer from the Middle Ob: a reddish-brown wooden board with a pointed blade, narrow cord attachment and long loose cord.","credit":"Néprajzi Múzeum, Budapest, NM 39893","license":"Museum record marked 'Creative commons license' (variant unstated) — rehosted low-res","source_page":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/en/collection/item/101180241/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"An Ob-Ugric bullroarer from the Middle Ob (1850–1900).","additional":[{"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."}]},"slug":"rusin-004-khanty"}