By Carol Hiltner | President, Altai Mir University
As mentioned in the last report, Project Leader Svetlana Katynova received a government grant to enable them to purchase professional recording equipment for documenting origin stories, both visually and with throat-singing. Your donation contributed to providing the 10% reserve funds that Svetlana was required to provide to be eligible for the grant.
Another aspect of the grant is the reconstruction of a mythical musical instrument called the dyadagan, remnants of which were found during excavation of one of many piled-stone monuments called kurgans. Before receiving the grant, Svetlana has worked on this project pro bono for more than three years.
Since the last report, Svetlana and her reconstruction team of traditional-instrument experts traveled to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (which is similar in function to the American Smithsonian Museum) to view, examine, and document the remnants of the dyadagan, as the first step to reconstructing it.
Thank you for your ongoing support for this project. I have been working with Svetlana on cultural sustainability for the ancient Altai people for more than a decade now, and her efforts have been innovative, significant, and unflagging.
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