Engineering:Kaco
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The kaco is a type of shamanistic drum of the Ainu people, primarily those of Sakhalin Island.[1]
Construction
The instrument is made of a wooden branch of willow or larch bent into an ellipse with a membrane of musk deer skin; the drum beater is covered in dogskin.[2]
Etymology
The word kaco may be a loan-word from the Orok language.[1] The drum may be more formally called senisteh, a word referring to charms in general.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Juha Pentikäinen (1996). Shamanism and Northern Ecology. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 305–. ISBN 978-3-11-014186-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=rvf0V3z-6asC&pg=PA305. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (31 August 1981). Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A symbolic interpretation. CUP Archive. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-0-521-23636-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=OTo9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA75. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
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