{"id":"SIBER-004","label":"Amur Evenki wind-summoning rotated aerophone","people_or_site":"Evenki (Amur Evenki)","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Amur basin (Priamurye), Russian Far East","macroregion":"Siberia / Russian Far East","local_name":"","source_term":"ветровой аэрофон / жужжалка","source_language":"Russian","object_description":"A rotating sound-maker described by Podmaskin as a 'wind aerophone'; Vasilevich's underlying account calls it a zhuzhzhalka (buzzer/noisemaker). No surviving object or construction is identified.","function_summary":"Wind magic: the Amur Evenki believed wind could be summoned by rotating or turning the sound-maker.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"podmaskin_2008_amur_evenki","source_type":"secondary_journal","source_url":"https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/narodnye-znaniya-amurskih-evenkov","page_or_plate":"Podmaskin 2008, journal p. 88; Vasilevich 1969, p. 212","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Amur-basin / Priamurye Evenki anchor; neither source names a settlement.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"For the Evenki, the wind was breath: the supreme being Sheveki blew it across the country to drive away the mosquitoes and midges. That breath could also be called up by magic, by twirling a zhuzhzhalka, a whirring noisemaker. Among the Amur Evenki, Podmaskin names the same device a “wind aerophone,” turned to make the wind come rather than wait for it.","pull_quote":"Эвенки считали, что ветер можно вызвать магическим способом, вращая ветровой аэрофон.","pull_quote_translation":"The Evenki believed that wind could be summoned by magical means by rotating a wind aerophone.","pull_quote_cite":"Podmaskin, «Народные знания амурских эвенков», Россия и АТР, 2008, p. 88","term_gloss":"ветровой аэрофон (vetrovoy aerofon) = 'wind aerophone'; жужжалка (zhuzhzhalka) = generic buzzer/noisemaker in Vasilevich's wording.","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"V. V. Podmaskin, “Народные знания амурских эвенков” [Folk knowledge of the Amur Evenki], Россия и АТР (2008), p. 88; citing Vasilevich (1969), p. 212","url":"https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/narodnye-znaniya-amurskih-evenkov","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20230509171144/https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/narodnye-znaniya-amurskih-evenkov"},{"citation":"G. M. Vasilevich, Эвенки: историко-этнографические очерки (XVIII – начало XX в.) (Leningrad: Nauka, 1969), p. 212","url":"https://lib.kunstkamera.ru/files/lib/vasilevich_evenki/vasilevich_evenki.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240527125547/https://lib.kunstkamera.ru/files/lib/vasilevich_evenki/vasilevich_evenki.pdf"}],"source_citations":"V. V. Podmaskin, “Народные знания амурских эвенков” [Folk knowledge of the Amur Evenki], Россия и АТР (2008), p. 88; citing Vasilevich (1969), p. 212; G. M. Vasilevich, Эвенки: историко-этнографические очерки (XVIII – начало XX в.) (Leningrad: Nauka, 1969), p. 212","source_display":"V. V. Podmaskin, “Народные знания амурских эвенков” [Folk knowledge of the Amur Evenki], Россия и АТР (2008), p. 88; citing Vasilevich (1969), p. 212; G. M. Vasilevich, Эвенки: историко-этнографические очерки (XVIII – начало XX в.) (Leningrad: Nauka, 1969), p. 212","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A rotating sound-maker described by Podmaskin as a 'wind aerophone'; Vasilevich's underlying account calls it a zhuzhzhalka (buzzer/noisemaker). No surviving object or construction is identified.","function_display":"Wind magic: the Amur Evenki believed wind could be summoned by rotating or turning the sound-maker.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"evenki","display_name":"Amur Evenki wind-summoning rotated aerophone","image":{"full":"assets/objects/RUSIN-002_mqb_71_1911_20_42_rig.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/RUSIN-002_mqb_71_1911_20_42_rig_thumb.jpg","alt":"Chukchi rig with serrated blade, sinew thread, and wooden handle.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1911.20.42.1-2 (coll. Nikolai Gondatti, entered 1911)","license":"N/A","source_page":"https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/explore-collections/base/Work/action/show/notice/334184","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Chukchi serrated bullroarer rig with handle.","pool_id":"auto-RUSIN-002_mqb_71_1911_20_42_rig"},"slug":"siber-004-evenki-amur-evenki"}