{"id":"BUGALLO1993-001","label":"Toba healing roarer calls the Nowet","people_or_site":"Toba (Qom)","country_current":"Argentina","historic_region":"Gran Chaco (Formosa/Chaco provinces)","macroregion":"South America / Gran Chaco","local_name":"","source_term":"placa zumbadora","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"A light wooden board shaped like a long leaf or a fish, up to about 40 × 10 cm, pierced at one end for a cháguar-fibre cord about 1.5 m long.","function_summary":"Sounded by the piogonak (shaman) in healing rites to summon the Nowet, his helper spirits; because of its tie to sacred power, children were not allowed to use it.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"perezbugallo1993_catalogo_instrumentos","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik3Z5r8r_RUC&jscmd=SearchWithinVolume2&q=nowet","page_or_plate":"Pérez Bugallo p. 129; Gentile p. 21, fig. 4","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Central Argentine Toba/Qom area anchor (Formosa–Chaco); no community named. Not Rydén's Sombrero Negro point (SA-Z1953-033).","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When a Toba piogonak set out to heal, the shaman whirled a light wooden board, cut like a long leaf or a fish and hung on a cháguar-fibre cord as long as a man is tall. Its roar called the Nowet, the helper spirits, to the cure. Something that could reach that kind of power was not for small hands: among the Toba, children were not allowed to use it. The same people had another weather-turning whirler, a forked sling that flung its stick free; the healing board stayed on its cord.","pull_quote":"convoca mediante su ejecución a los Nowet -espíritus auxiliares- durante sus rituales terapéuticos","pull_quote_translation":"by playing it, he summons the Nowet, the helper spirits, during his healing rituals","pull_quote_cite":"Rubén Pérez Bugallo, Catálogo ilustrado de instrumentos musicales argentinos (1993), p. 129","term_gloss":"piogonak: Toba shaman. Nowet: helper spirits. cháguar: a bromeliad whose fibre the Chaco peoples twist into cord.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Rubén Pérez Bugallo, Catálogo ilustrado de instrumentos musicales argentinos (Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Sol, 1993), p. 129","url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik3Z5r8r_RUC"},{"citation":"Margarita E. Gentile, 'Placas zumbadoras y sogas sibilantes asociadas a las capacochacuna del volcán Llullaillaco,' El Futuro del Pasado 9 (2018): 15–42, p. 21, fig. 4","url":"https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/10366/148124/1/Placas_zumbadoras_y_sogas_sibilantes_aso.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20231120223643/https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/10366/148124/1/Placas_zumbadoras_y_sogas_sibilantes_aso.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Rubén Pérez Bugallo, Catálogo ilustrado de instrumentos musicales argentinos (Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Sol, 1993), p. 129; Margarita E. Gentile, 'Placas zumbadoras y sogas sibilantes asociadas a las capacochacuna del volcán Llullaillaco,' El Futuro del Pasado 9 (2018): 15–42, p. 21, fig. 4","source_display":"Rubén Pérez Bugallo, Catálogo ilustrado de instrumentos musicales argentinos (Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Sol, 1993), p. 129; Margarita E. Gentile, 'Placas zumbadoras y sogas sibilantes asociadas a las capacochacuna del volcán Llullaillaco,' El Futuro del Pasado 9 (2018): 15–42, p. 21, fig. 4","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A light wooden board shaped like a long leaf or a fish, up to about 40 × 10 cm, pierced at one end for a cháguar-fibre cord about 1.5 m long.","function_display":"Sounded by the piogonak (shaman) in healing rites to summon the Nowet, his helper spirits; because of its tie to sacred power, children were not allowed to use it.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"toba","display_name":"Toba healing roarer calls the Nowet","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SA-Z1953-030_smvk_011571_vinare.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SA-Z1953-030_smvk_011571_vinare_thumb.jpg","credit":"Världskulturmuseerna / Etnografiska museet (SMVK), drawing 011571, coll. Erland Nordenskiöld","license":"CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 — rehosted unmodified","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1304506","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Chané bullroarer of Río Parapiti in its c. 1909 drawing","pool_id":"auto-SA-Z1953-030_smvk_011571_vinare","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"bugallo1993-001-toba-qom"}