Elvik Dordzhiev, A legend about the yatkha (zither)
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Terbish, Baasanjav
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Elvik recounts a legend about a woman, who wishing to stop her husband going away on a long military campaign, lies down on his lap, turning into a musical instrument. Her body turned into the yatkha instrument, her hair into its strings, and her bones into the string plates.
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Musical instrument, zither, legend
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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