Wooden Churn Staff
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""For shaking up the Kumys [koumiss] (fermented mare's milk)"."
label: Notes
content: Identified by Zinaida Ivanova, Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia Federation, 11-7-2012 as having been used to churn mare's milk in a container like E352248, as part of process to ferment mare's milk to make koumiss.
label: Notes
content: Kumys (kumis, kumiss or koumiss) is a fermented milk product traditionally made from mare's milk (though industrial-scale production today generally uses cow's milk), which is popular in Central Asia, parts of Russia, and Eastern Europe. It is consumed both as food as well as an alcoholic drink.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Churn stick. Khamnatar. 19th century, second half. Birch. Dimensional, piercing, contoured carving, hollowing. L.: 106. A long shaft is inserted into a cone-shaped bowl with four triangular 'eye' holes. Khamnatar churn stick is used for churning kumys poured into simir leather bag. To do that a kenkeley hollow funnel is inserted into the mouth of simir and a churn stick is put through it. Two groups of rings with three rings in each one are carved into the upper part of the handle, separated from each other by flat wooden disks. The top ends in a small round knob. All items needed for preparing and ritual drinking of kumys are considered to be sacred.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352217-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dasher
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 106 cm