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Mergen Kavaldanov, About My Work


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Terbish, Baasanjav 
Churyumova, Elvira 

Abstract

Mergen makes whistles from clay in the form of animals, such as a horse, a wolf and a lamb. Recently he has been making camel-whistles, and to associate them with the Kalmyk steppe, he makes his whistles produce a wind-like, low sound. He says he uses a Spanish technique for making whistles. While small whistles have a higher pitched sound, larger whistles tend to produce a thicker sound. Mergen also makes rattles, a kettle and other art objects. Mergen shows the figure of a wolf, dyed in blue, which symbolizes that the wolf is a sky-animal. Another object that he shows is a whistle that takes half an hour to make. A camel-whistle, by contrast, takes 4.5 hours to produce.

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Art, clay, whistles

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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

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