{"id":"SIB-MELODIYA-001","label":"Siberian Eskimo eïnètkoutchin bullroarer","people_or_site":"Siberian Eskimo / Chukchi-Eskimo anthology track","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Chukotka / northeastern Siberia","macroregion":"Siberia / Arctic Siberia","local_name":"eïnètkoutchin / enietkoutchina / enietkoutchine","source_term":"eïnètkoutchin / enietkoutchina","source_language":"French / Japanese / English metadata","object_description":"The eïnètkoutchin: a small wooden rod with a cord attached, spun quickly in the air to produce a sound of changing pitch; on the recording it sounds with voice in an Eskimo song.","function_summary":"A cord-whirled wooden rod that accompanies an Eskimo song.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"siberian_melodiya_audio","source_type":"audio_recording_with_liner_notes","source_url":"https://www.edmu.fr/2014/08/voyage-en-urss.html","page_or_plate":"Minpaku P21829B12; MusicRepublic original insert scan; YouTube 03:47","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Chukotka / Siberian Eskimo regional anchor. The current sources do not give a precise community or field-recording locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On a Soviet-era anthology of Siberian and Far North music, issued in France by Le Chant du Monde, a short Eskimo song called \"Flight of a Seagull against the Wind\" runs barely over a minute. The singer, credited only as Oumka, performs to the sound of an enietkoutchina, a small wooden rod whirled on a cord, which the album lists among its instruments as a bullroarer. No ritual use is recorded, only that it accompanies the song, and the place the recording was made is not given.","pull_quote":"Oumka, voice and enietkoutchina.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) track record P21829B12, \"Flight of a Seagull against the Wind\"","term_gloss":"enietkoutchina (also eïnètkoutchin, enietkoutchine): the name for the spun cord-and-rod aerophone, i.e. a bullroarer","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":"Le Chant du Monde / Melodiya, Voyage en URSS no. 10: Siberie, Extreme Orient & Nord, side II, “Flight of a Seagull against the Wind,” original insert, via MusicRepublic scan","url":"https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2018/12/siberia-siberie-voyage-en-urss-n-10.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260820011547/https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2018/12/siberia-siberie-voyage-en-urss-n-10.html"},{"citation":"National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), track P21829B12, “Flight of a Seagull against the Wind”","url":"https://htq-fs.minpaku.ac.jp/trackInfo/P21829B12","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013030442/https://htq-fs.minpaku.ac.jp/trackInfo/P21829B12"},{"citation":"edmu, Voyage en URSS, liner-note transcription and instrument dictionary","url":"https://www.edmu.fr/2014/08/voyage-en-urss.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260411142919/https://www.edmu.fr/2014/08/voyage-en-urss.html"},{"citation":"ArsX, YouTube excerpt, 03:47","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nFMLquMh0A&t=227s","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250805154652/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nFMLquMh0A&t=227s"}],"source_citations":"Le Chant du Monde / Melodiya, Voyage en URSS no. 10: Siberie, Extreme Orient & Nord, side II, “Flight of a Seagull against the Wind,” original insert, via MusicRepublic scan; National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), track P21829B12, “Flight of a Seagull against the Wind”; edmu, Voyage en URSS, liner-note transcription and instrument dictionary; ArsX, YouTube excerpt, 03:47","source_display":"Le Chant du Monde / Melodiya, Voyage en URSS no. 10: Siberie, Extreme Orient & Nord, side II, “Flight of a Seagull against the Wind,” original insert, via MusicRepublic scan; National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), track P21829B12, “Flight of a Seagull against the Wind”; edmu, Voyage en URSS, liner-note transcription and instrument dictionary; ArsX…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"The eïnètkoutchin: a small wooden rod with a cord attached, spun quickly in the air to produce a sound of changing pitch; on the recording it sounds with voice in an Eskimo song.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"siberian eskimo","display_name":"Siberian Eskimo eïnètkoutchin bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/sheikin2019_chukchi_vyutkunen_fig4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/sheikin2019_chukchi_vyutkunen_fig4_thumb.jpg","alt":"Chukchi vyutkunen drawing: a feather-form blade with slanting marks along its edges and a looping cord joining it to a smaller narrow piece.","credit":"Sheikin, Dobzhanskaya & Ignateva, \"Звуковые орудия и музыкальные инструменты чукчей\", Традиционная культура 20:4 (2019), fig. 4","license":"In copyright — open-access journal figure, rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://trad-culture.ru/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Chukchi vyutkunen (выюткунэнг)."},"slug":"sib-melodiya-001-siberian-eskimo-chukchi-eskimo-anthology-track"}