Agiarut
The agiarut (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐊᒋᐊᕈᑦ also known as the Eskimo fiddle) is a bowed instrument native to the Inuit culture of Canada and Alaska.
19th century Agiarut from Alaska, in the McManus Galleries, Dundee, Scotland, though this example is missing its bow.
According to musicologist Beverley Cavanagh,[1] agiarut is the name for a European fiddle, while tautirut is the name for the indigenous bowed box zither. The modern Western fiddle may be referred to as agiaq ("shaman's rubbing stone").[2]
References
- Cavanagh, Beverley (2011-10-26). Tautirut. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.l2215013.
- Goebl, Hans; Nelde, Peter H.; Stary, Zdenek; Wölck, Wolfgang (2008-07-14). "7.3 Lexicon". Contact Linguistics. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. 12. Walter de Gruyter. p. 1052. ISBN 978-3-11-020324-0.
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