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The article highlights the history of the study of Evenkis phono (sound) instruments that only began to be described by scholars in the 1960s. In the 80s the ethnomusicologist Yu. I. Sheikin created a classification of these instruments based on both historical information and field research. He identified chordophones, Jew’s harps, historical sound instruments, “archophones” associated with hunting and reindeer husbandry, and shamans’ professional tools. This article provides an overview of the Evenki sound instruments held in the collections of Yakutia museums. The Museum of Musical Instruments of the Peoples of Northern Asia — created on the basis of Sheikin’s collection of phono-instruments — contains a stringed instrument called a “kordavun”, a conical tube (“orevun”) made from birch bark, and a whistle (“bilgau”) made from the throat of a bird. The Olenek Historical and Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of the North preserves mainly idiophones — bells, rattles made from deer hooves, a pendant-rattle for a cradle made of bones and pieces of wool, a rattle (“boltalo-pogremushka”) for a deer’s neck, an “aerofone-zhuzhalka” and also shamanic accessories (drums, beaters, a costume with pendants). The Museum of Music and Folklore of the Peoples of Yakutia exhibits several rattles made from deer hooves by the artist G. S. Keregyaeva. The Yakut State United Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North features a Yakut shaman’s tambourine whose shell and other features correspond to those of the Evenki.
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