The Bullroarer Atlas

SIB-MELODIYA-001 - ethnographic attestation

Siberian Eskimo / Chukchi-Eskimo anthology track

Russia - Chukotka - northeastern Siberia - Asia - Arctic Siberia

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Sheikin and colleagues' drawing of a Chukchi vyutkunen: a feather-shaped wooden blade notched along both edges, tied to a cord, with a small...
Representative image. Sheikin and colleagues' drawing of a Chukchi vyutkunen: a feather-shaped wooden blade notched along both edges, tied to a cord, with a small separate blade sketched below it. It belongs to the same Chukotkan instrument family as the anthology recordings documented here, not to the recording session itself. Sheikin, Dobzhanskaya & Ignateva, "Звуковые орудия и музыкальные инструменты чукчей", Традиционная культура 20:4 (2019), fig. 4 Image source

eïnètkoutchin / enietkoutchina / enietkoutchine French / Japanese / English metadata

Source term: eïnètkoutchin / enietkoutchina

enietkoutchina (also eïnètkoutchin, enietkoutchine): the recording's name for the spun cord-and-rod aerophone, i.e. a bullroarer

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.

Oumka, voice and enietkoutchina.

National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) track record P21829B12, "Flight of a Seagull against the Wind"
Object
The edmu liner-note transcription defines the eïnètkoutchin as a small wooden rod with a cord attached that is spun quickly in the air to produce a changing-pitch sound; Minpaku metadata identifies the track as an Eskimo song with voice and enietkoutchina.
Function
Strict cord-whirled wooden aerophone accompanying an Eskimo song on a Siberia / Far North anthology; no ritual function is stated in the checked sources.
Map confidence
low_medium - Broad Chukotka / Siberian Eskimo regional anchor. The current sources do not give a precise community or field-recording locality.
Source location
Minpaku P21829B12; MusicRepublic original insert scan; YouTube 03:47

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