{"id":"CHENG2015-002","label":"Puyuma childhood bullroarer, Katratripulr","people_or_site":"Pinuyumayan / Puyuma (Katratripulr)","country_current":"Taiwan","historic_region":"Katratripulr (Zhiben), Taitung","macroregion":"East Asia / Taiwan","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"","object_description":"A thin slip of bamboo tied by one string to a bamboo handstick, swung by the string.","function_summary":"Remembered childhood toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"review2026","source_type":"academic_thesis","source_url":"https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Taxonomies-of-Taiwanese-Aboriginal-Musical-Instruments/9926480150701891","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 899-901 (interview transcript)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Zhiben (Katratripulr), Taitung City.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Sangpuy Katatepan of Katratripulr, the Puyuma community at Zhiben, remembered the instrument from his own childhood: a thin slip of bamboo on a string, tied to a bamboo stick and swung until it sounded. 'That was a toy during our childhood,' he told the ethnomusicologist Jen-hao Cheng in 2009 — and then turned the question around: 'Can it be regarded as a musical instrument?' Among the Puyuma, he confirmed, it was a plaything.","pull_quote":"Our Puyuma children also play a similar instrument.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Sangpuy Katatepan, interview with L. J. Cheng, 10 Aug 2009; Cheng 2015, printed p. 899","term_gloss":"","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), interview with Sangpuy Katatepan, 10 Aug 2009","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), interview with Sangpuy Katatepan, 10 Aug 2009","source_display":"Lancini Jen-hao Cheng, Taxonomies of Taiwanese Aboriginal Musical Instruments (PhD thesis, University of Otago, 2015), interview with Sangpuy Katatepan, 10 Aug 2009","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A thin slip of bamboo tied by one string to a bamboo handstick, swung by the string.","function_display":"Remembered childhood toy.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pinuyumayan","display_name":"Puyuma childhood bullroarer, Katratripulr","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":"Cheng’s Tsou euvuvu, a corded wooden bullroarer from Taiwan."},"slug":"cheng2015-002-pinuyumayan-puyuma-katratripulr"}