SIB-MELODIYA-001 - ethnographic attestation
Siberian Eskimo eïnètkoutchin bullroarer audio lead
Russia - Chukotka - northeastern Siberia - Arctic Siberia
Play / practical
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
Page references
Minpaku P21829B12; MusicRepublic original insert scan; YouTube 03:47
- Toy / secular survival