{"id":"RUSIN-007","label":"Nganasan biakhery wind howler","people_or_site":"Nganasan","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Taimyr Peninsula / Avam tundra","macroregion":"Siberia / Arctic Siberia","local_name":"биахеры","source_term":"вращаемая завывалка (rotated howler), Sheikin school","source_language":"Russian","object_description":"Biakhery, a howling blade whirled on a cord.","function_summary":"Former ritual instrument for establishing a magical connection with the wind; later a children’s toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"SHEIKIN2002_NGANASAN_BIAKHERY","source_type":"web_encyclopedia","source_url":"https://arctic-megapedia.com/blog/2020/12/03/folklor-nganasanov/","page_or_plate":"Instrument passage (сани херы / биахеры sentence)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Ust-Avam at the Avam-Dudypta confluence, the most traditional of the three principal Nganasan villages (others: Volochanka, Novaya); people-level attestation anchored there","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Nganasan biakhery did more than make noise: whirled on its cord, it opened a magical connection with the wind. By the time ethnographers described it, the old ritual instrument had passed into children’s hands, its former power surviving in memory.","pull_quote":"Вихревой аэрофон-жужжалка сани херы и вращаемая завывалка биахеры ныне известны как детские игрушки, но в прошлом выполняли ритуальную функцию установления магической связи с ветром.","pull_quote_translation":"The vortex-aerophone buzzer sani khery and the rotated howler biakhery are now known as children's toys, but in the past performed the ritual function of establishing a magical connection with the wind.","pull_quote_cite":"Arctic Megapedia, «Фольклор нганасан», after Sheikin 2002","term_gloss":"биахеры shares its final element with the buzzer сани херы; the two names divide the Nganasan whirled sound-tools between the howler and the buzzer.","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,"sources":[{"citation":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Фольклор нганасан' (after Yu. I. Sheikin, 2002)","url":"https://arctic-megapedia.com/blog/2020/12/03/folklor-nganasanov/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260306024956/https://arctic-megapedia.com/blog/2020/12/03/folklor-nganasanov/"}],"source_citations":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Фольклор нганасан' (after Yu. I. Sheikin, 2002)","source_display":"Arctic Megapedia, 'Фольклор нганасан' (after Yu. I. Sheikin, 2002)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Biakhery, a howling blade whirled on a cord.","function_display":"Former ritual instrument for establishing a magical connection with the wind; later a children’s toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"nganasan","display_name":"Nganasan biakhery wind howler","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).","pool_id":"auto-RUSIN-004_neprajz_nm39893_middle_ob"},"slug":"rusin-007-nganasan"}