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Tautirut

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

The Canadian anthropologist Ernest William Hawkes described the tautirut in 1916: