{"id":"BOLANOS1978-001","label":"Huitoto Peruvian Amazon feather bullroarer","people_or_site":"Huitoto","country_current":"Peru","historic_region":"Peruvian Amazon / Loreto","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"pluma zumbadora","source_term":"pluma zumbadora","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Several Penelope (guan) feathers tied to a single cord and a small handstick.","function_summary":"A customary game: guan feathers on a cord, whirled for their whirring sound. Tessmann records no wooden bullroarer for the Uitoto.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"inc1978_huitoto_pluma_zumbadora","source_type":"ethnographic_survey","source_url":"https://www.joseperezdearcea.cl/_files/ugd/163345_219bcd774fa1489bbaacbb3e4adfb3a4.pdf","page_or_plate":"INC 1978 p. 461 (entry 3) and p. 462 (figure); Perez de Arce 2025 Fig. 1913","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Loreto / Peruvian Amazon anchor only; the 1978 survey names no community, river, or Huitoto subtype.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among bullroarers of wood and bone, the Huitoto whirled feathers: several guan feathers tied to one cord and a short handstick. No village, rite, or story was set down with it.","pull_quote":"Kein Schwirrholz. ... Ein Spiel mit Penelopefedern, die an eine Schnur gebunden sind und die ein surrendes Geräusch geben, ist üblich.","pull_quote_translation":"No bullroarer. ... A game with Penelope (guan) feathers, tied to a cord, which give a whirring sound, is customary.","pull_quote_cite":"Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930), p. 321 (Uitoto, rubric 47).","term_gloss":"pluma zumbadora: Spanish, 'buzzing feather'.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"César Bolaños et al., Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 1978), pp. 461-462, entry 3, after Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930); José Pérez de Arce (2025), fig. 1913","url":"https://www.joseperezdearcea.cl/_files/ugd/163345_219bcd774fa1489bbaacbb3e4adfb3a4.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012235112/https://www.joseperezdearcea.cl/_files/ugd/163345_219bcd774fa1489bbaacbb3e4adfb3a4.pdf"}],"source_citations":"César Bolaños et al., Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 1978), pp. 461-462, entry 3, after Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930); José Pérez de Arce (2025), fig. 1913","source_display":"César Bolaños et al., Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 1978), pp. 461-462, entry 3, after Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930); José Pérez de Arce (2025), fig. 1913","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Several Penelope (guan) feathers tied to a single cord and a small handstick.","function_display":"A customary game: guan feathers on a cord, whirled for their whirring sound. Tessmann records no wooden bullroarer for the Uitoto.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"huitoto","display_name":"Huitoto Peruvian Amazon feather bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/BOLANOS1978-001_bolanos1978_fig1913.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/thumbs/BOLANOS1978-001_bolanos1978_fig1913_thumb.jpg","credit":"Bolaños 1978, reproduced in José Pérez de Arce, Sonidos de la América Precolombina (2025), fig. 1913","license":"","source_page":"https://www.joseperezdearcea.cl/_files/ugd/163345_219bcd774fa1489bbaacbb3e4adfb3a4.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The pluma zumbadora drawn for Bolaños's 1978 survey: guan feathers bound to a cord and slender handstick."},"slug":"bolanos1978-001-huitoto-source-label-subtype-unspecified"}