SOLOVIEV2015-001 - ethnographic attestation
Kildin Sámi navv’t beast-howler
Russia - Murmansk Oblast - Kola Peninsula - Europe - Arctic
Function not recorded
navv’t
Source term: vortex aerophone-howler
navv’t: “beast.”
The Kildin Sámi name navv’t means “beast.” No instrument was ever collected: Soloviev reconstructs it from the name and from the Finnish pärrä he figures as its analogue — a wooden blade swung on a cord, its spinning interruptions rising and falling into gliding sounds like an animal’s howl, especially a wolf’s. Behind the howl he suggests the god Kavvrai, patron of the noaidi, who in the eastern Sámi telling made the wolf and the dog.
наввьт / navv’t (кильд.-саам. – зверь)
navv’t (Kildin Sámi: “beast”)
Soloviev 2015:3
- Object
- No specimen is recorded. Reconstructed as a wooden interrupter blade in free rotation — cord-swung on the model of the Finnish pärrä Soloviev figures as its analogue — whose quickening spin glides into animal-like howls.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Source
- I. V. Soloviev, “Saamskie muzykalnye instrumenty: k popytke osmysleniya semantiki zvenyashchego tembra,” Muzykal'nyj zhurnal Evropejskogo Severa 3 (2015), p. 3
- Source location
Page references
p. 3; Finnish pärrä analogue discussed/figured later in the article
- Source confidence
- medium
- Location note
- Lovozero is used as a present-day Kildin Sámi cultural anchor; the source does not identify a collection or performance locality.
Regions: Europe