{"id":"YAGOM2026-001","label":"Sakha kuurt / kyugyunei whirrer, Gurvich collection (Zhilinda)","people_or_site":"Sakha (Yakut), Olenek","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Olenek ulus, northwestern Yakutia","macroregion":"Siberia / East Siberia","local_name":"күүрт, күүгүнэй","source_term":"жужжалка (museum catalog class)","source_language":"Russian / Sakha","object_description":"Elongated wooden sound-toy blade with cotton thread, 12.5 × 2.2 × 0.4 cm; first half of the twentieth century. Yakutsk State United Museum ЯГОМ КП-53518.","function_summary":"Sakha children’s whirring sound toy from Zhilinda.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"GOSKATALOG_YAGOM_KP53518","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://goskatalog.ru/portal/#/collections?id=17173229","page_or_plate":"ЯГОМ КП-53518 (goskatalog regNumber 17045869)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Zhilinda village, Olenek ulus — the record's own findPlace","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A slip of wood became a Sakha children’s whirrer. The blade is 12.5 centimetres long, 2.2 wide, and only four millimetres thick, with its cotton thread still attached. At Zhilinda it was known as күүрт or күүгүнэй.","pull_quote":"Игрушка детская. Жужжалка. Күүрт, күүгүнэй (якут.).","pull_quote_translation":"Children's toy. Whirrer. Kuurt, kyugyunei (Yakut).","pull_quote_cite":"Yakutsk State United Museum, ЯГОМ КП-53518 (goskatalog record)","term_gloss":"күүгүнэй shares its root with кюкюгюнюр in Dyakonova's Sakha whirrer name-cluster.","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":"Yakutsk State United Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North (Якутский государственный объединенный музей истории и культуры народов Севера им. Ем. Ярославского), ЯГОМ КП-53518 (Russian State Catalogue, goskatalog.ru)","url":"https://goskatalog.ru/portal/#/collections?id=17173229","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251101075814/https://goskatalog.ru/portal/#/collections?id=20825603"}],"source_citations":"Yakutsk State United Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North (Якутский государственный объединенный музей истории и культуры народов Севера им. Ем. Ярославского), ЯГОМ КП-53518 (Russian State Catalogue, goskatalog.ru)","source_display":"Yakutsk State United Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North (Якутский государственный объединенный музей истории и культуры народов Севера им. Ем. Ярославского), ЯГОМ КП-53518 (Russian State Catalogue, goskatalog.ru)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Elongated wooden sound-toy blade with cotton thread, 12.5 × 2.2 × 0.4 cm; first half of the twentieth century. Yakutsk State United Museum ЯГОМ КП-53518.","function_display":"Sakha children’s whirring sound toy from Zhilinda.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"sakha","display_name":"Sakha kuurt / kyugyunei whirrer, Gurvich collection (Zhilinda)","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":"A Chukchi blade on cord with wooden handle (quai Branly)","pool_id":"auto-RUSIN-002_mqb_71_1911_20_42_rig"},"slug":"yagom2026-001-sakha-yakut-olenek"}