khutang
The Khutang (literally translated to "swan", also called Ostyak harp, Kiotang, Sotang, Shotang) is a type of harp played by the Khanty and Mansi people of Siberia. The Khutang and the Nares-jux lyre are the only two indigenous string instruments of Northern Siberia. The Khutang is bow-shaped and often surmounted by a carven animal head, which is often a swan.
Also recorded as Ostyak harp · kiotang · sotang · shotang
khutang
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- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
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The Khutang (literally translated to "swan", also called Ostyak harp, Kiotang, Sotang, Shotang) is a type of harp played by the Khanty and Mansi people of Siberia. The Khutang and the Nares-jux lyre are the only two indigenous string instruments of Northern Siberia. The Khutang is bow-shaped and often surmounted by a carven animal head, which is often a swan.
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It is generally described as having between nine and thirteen strings. The Mansi also referred to the instrument as Taryghsyp Yiv (meaning "wooden crane-neck"). A similar swan-shaped and two-stringed harp is played by the Narym Selkup people of Siberia, which may have been based on the Ostyak Harp.
It is associated with Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
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khutang is associated with Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
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- 1.Folk harp journal. 1 January 1981.
- 2.Sibyl Marcuse. A survey of musical instruments. Harper & Row. 403. April 1975. 978-0-06-012776-3.
- 3.Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer. The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective. Princeton University Press. 192–. 1 November 1999. 978-0-691-00673-4.
- 4.Modern Humanities Research Association. Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry: The traditions. 31 December 1980. 978-0-900547-72-0.
- 5.Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Estonian Language & Estonian Museum of Literature. Folk belief today. 452. 1995. 978-9985-851-11-1.
- 6.Péter Hajdú. Finno-Ugrian languages and peoples. Deutsch. 234. 1975. 978-0-233-96552-9.
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