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MUSIC
The music on this
site is traditional nenets singing
collected by Jarkko NIemi.
Song 1. KHINTS »
A narrative song of the Kanin Peninsula Nenetses about a strange wedding.
An example of a song of the most western European Nenetses of the Kanin
Peninsula at the White Sea coast.
The singer, Elizaveta Pavlovna Ardeeva (Nen. surname form: We”li), was
born in 1933 on Kanin tundra, near the river Shoyna. She is widely known
singer among the Kanin Nenetses. (photo J. Niemi)
2. Pankhey Pya”k Lyalya Inyi”kavich dyutilho”ma.
A shamanistic dream song of the Siberian Forest Nenetses
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An example of a shamanistic song of one of the most eastern group of the
Siberian Nenetses, namely the Pur river Forest Nenetses (Nye”shang). The
Forest Nenetses have preserved their language and traditions
surprisingly well, due to the relative isolation of their remote taiga
territories along the river Pur and its tributaries.This recording was
made by J. Niemi in September 1998 in the village of Tarko-Sale.
The singer, Lyalya Inyi”kavich Pankhey Pya”k, is a Forest Nenets fisher
and hunter living on the River Upper Chasel’ka, adjoining the Selkup
territories, is called a dyutilhtana, a seer of dreams. He was born in
1941 in the Kharampur taiga. His father was a tachipya, a shaman, who
passed on his shamanistic knowledge to him . (photo J.Niemi)
Photos: John Mc Connico (up), Jarkko Niemi (singers)