tautirut
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thumb|"Eskimo violin" from Hudson bay area. The tautirut (Inuktitut syllabics: or tautiruut, also known as the Eskimo fiddle) is a bowed zither native to the Inuit culture of Canada.
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thumb|"Eskimo violin" from Hudson bay area. The tautirut (Inuktitut syllabics: or tautiruut, also known as the Eskimo fiddle) is a bowed zither native to the Inuit culture of Canada.
Lucien M. Turner described the "Eskimo violin" in 1894 as being
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