{"id":"CHENG2015-001","label":"Sakizaya berber bullroarer, Guo Fu Community","people_or_site":"Sakizaya","country_current":"Taiwan","historic_region":"Guo Fu Community / Hualien City","macroregion":"East Asia / Taiwan","local_name":"berber / ber ber","source_term":"bullroarer; distinct from same-named whirring disc","source_language":"English","object_description":"Slender oval bullroarer; in practice a thin stone slice tied to a long string and spun. The same name also covers a separate two-hole whirring disc.","function_summary":"Children's toy; revived by elders as a plaything in schools and cultural associations.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"cheng2015_sakizaya_berber","source_type":"scholarly_dissertation","source_url":"https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Taxonomies-of-Taiwanese-Aboriginal-Musical-Instruments/9926480150701891","page_or_plate":"pp. 613-15, 942","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Guo Fu Community / Hualien City anchor; source gives no household or object accession.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"For more than a century after Qing troops crushed them in the 1878 Takobowan battle, the Sakizaya survived by hiding in plain sight — living as Amis, keeping their language indoors, until Taiwan recognized them as its thirteenth indigenous people in 2007. Out of that guarded childhood world the elder Jin-wen Huang remembered the ber ber: a thin slice of stone tied to a long string and spun until it sounded. 'The thinnest stone made the loudest sound.' A toy, nothing more — and today elders teach schoolchildren to make it again.","pull_quote":"Children played it just for amusement.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Jin-wen Huang, in Cheng, Taxonomies of Taiwanese Aboriginal Musical Instruments (2015), p. 942.","term_gloss":"berber / ber ber = Sakizaya name shared by the bullroarer and a separate whirring disc.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Lancini Jen-hao Cheng, Taxonomies of Taiwanese Aboriginal Musical Instruments (PhD thesis, University of Otago, 2015), §6.10.5, pp. 613-615, and p. 942 (interview with Jin-wen Huang, 12 July 2009, Guo Fu Community, Hualien City)","url":"https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Taxonomies-of-Taiwanese-Aboriginal-Musical-Instruments/9926480150701891","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260517144013/https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Taxonomies-of-Taiwanese-Aboriginal-Musical-Instruments/9926480150701891"}],"source_citations":"Lancini Jen-hao Cheng, Taxonomies of Taiwanese Aboriginal Musical Instruments (PhD thesis, University of Otago, 2015), §6.10.5, pp. 613-615, and p. 942 (interview with Jin-wen Huang, 12 July 2009, Guo Fu Community, Hualien City)","source_display":"Lancini Jen-hao Cheng, Taxonomies of Taiwanese Aboriginal Musical Instruments (PhD thesis, University of Otago, 2015), §6.10.5, pp. 613-615, and p. 942 (interview with Jin-wen Huang, 12 July 2009, Guo Fu Community, Hualien City)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Slender oval bullroarer; in practice a thin stone slice tied to a long string and spun. The same name also covers a separate two-hole whirring disc.","function_display":"Children's toy; revived by elders as a plaything in schools and cultural associations.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"sakizaya","display_name":"Sakizaya berber bullroarer, Guo Fu Community","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EA-TW-TSOU-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EA-TW-TSOU-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"Cheng’s photograph of a Tsou euvuvu: a pale flat wooden bullroarer with a cord attached at its rounded end, tapering to a point; the printed label reads “Euvuvu (bull-roarer).”","credit":"Lancini Jen-hao Cheng, 'Native Terminology and Classification of Taiwanese Musical Instruments', Ensayos XIX(28), 2015, Fig. 54","license":"Scholarly figure; non-commercial research use","source_page":"https://www.uv.mx/ensayos/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Tsou euvuvu bullroarer."},"slug":"cheng2015-001-sakizaya"}