Fiddle (Ki-Gu-I-Lu-Li-Ag-A-Ag-Ok)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "An elongated balloon shaped body with a flat back and belly made of thin unvarnished pine. The sides are vertical, made of one strip of bent wood, the ends terminating in the neck, held by bent wood, the ends terminating in the neck, held by sewing through and through and iron nails. The back and body are pinned to the sides with wooden pegs. A square star-shaped sound hole is made in the belly, back of the bridge. The bridge is rudely made and has two short legs. Two strings of twisted sinew, their lower ends fastened to pegs driven in the lower side, passing over the bridge. Their upper ends ar fastened to a round knob projecting from the head. It has neither peg box nor tuning pegs nor finger board. Name of the bow: Pi-tik, shi-gak. This specimen is also catalogued uner No. 93,524."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 54 in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge. Identified there as "Eskimo violin with bow made from whale baleen (1883). An Inuit violin collected by Turner at Ft. Chimo, known as Kiyuiluli-agiagok to the Ungava Inuit(Turner 1884: 2312). This name derives from: kiyu, wood; iluli, hollow; agiagok, filer, from the word to file or scrape (Turner 1884: 2312). The bow, made from Bowhead Whale baleen, was known as pitikshigak, and the strings were known as Ivulu, the term for sinew (Turner 1884: 2761, 2257). Turner wrote that "... the Innuit are passionately fond of music," and "[a Koksoak Inuit] performer was able to play quite a number of recognizable native tunes upon the instrument.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Ungava Bay, Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013922
label: USNM Number
content: E90201-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fiddle / Fiddle Bow