YAGOM2026-001 - museum specimen
Sakha kuurt / kyugyunei whirrer, Gurvich collection (Zhilinda)
Russia - Olenek ulus, northwestern Yakutia - East Siberia
Play / practical
күүрт, күүгүнэй Russian / Sakha
Source term: жужжалка (museum catalog class)
күүгүнэй shares its root with кюкюгюнюр in Dyakonova's Sakha whirrer name-cluster; күүрт is recorded only on this museum card.
A strip of wood scarcely thicker than a few sheets of paper 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.
Игрушка детская. Жужжалка. Күүрт, күүгүнэй (якут.).
Children's toy. Whirrer. Kuurt, kyugyunei (Yakut).
Yakutsk State United Museum, ЯГОМ КП-53518 (goskatalog record)
- Object
- 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
- Sakha children’s whirring sound toy from Zhilinda.
- Map confidence
- high - Zhilinda village, Olenek ulus — the record's own findPlace
- Source location
Page references
ЯГОМ КП-53518 (goskatalog regNumber 17045869)
- Toy / secular survival