RUSIN-008 - ethnographic attestation
Sakha (Yakut)
Russia - Central Yakutia - Asia - East Siberia
Play / practical
исиирэр (вар. эртйэр) Russian
Source term: гуделка / вращаемый гудящий свободный аэрофон
исиирэр, from an onomatopoeic hiss-whistle root; the archive records эртйэр as a variant name. суугунуур, among the buzzers, is from суугун, 'rustle, light noise.'
Among the Sakha of central Yakutia, the isiirer was the droning member of a family of whirring toys. Unlike button-like buzzers spun on twisted cords, its blade was swung in a full circle on a line. Made quickly from materials at hand, such sound-tools belonged beside the cracking herdsman’s whip and whistling willow switch, then were discarded after use.
…гуделка исиирэр, пластинчатые варганы мас хомус … и жужжалки иэрэгэй, кююгюнююр, суугунуур.
…the isiirer hummer, the plate jaw-harps mas khomus … and the buzzers ieregey, kyugyunyur, suugunuur.
Dyakonova 2019:34 (Традиционная культура 20/4)
- Object
- Blade swung full-circle on a line to produce a drone.
- Function
- Children’s droning sound-tool within living memory.
- Map confidence
- medium - Yakutsk anchor for a people-level central-Yakutia attestation; no specific ulus named by the sources
- Source location
- Dyakonova 2019, p. 34; AGIKI fonogrammarchiv ethnos page 87 (Wayback 2018-05-17)
- Toy / secular survival