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Tambourine. Chukchee

Title:

Tambourine

Ethnic groups:

Chukchee

Territory:

Chukotka Autonomous Region, Magadan Oblast, village Amguema

Date:

1920s

Collectors-person:
Gorbacheva Valentina
Material:

Metal; wood; animal derived materials: offals: bladder (walrus); threads: tendinous cord; bone (walrus)

Dimensions:

d 43.0; length of handle 11.0

Number:

РЭМ 11012-83/1

Annotation:

The drum of the Primorsky Chukchi had a narrow wooden shell, A membrane made of a sea mammal bladde and a small bone or wooden hammer. The drum among the Chukchi, who are characterized by a family type of shamanism, could be used by any member of the family during the rituals of the fishing cycle and during illnesses. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva