{"id":"COHEN2021-001","label":"Lagoa das Onças ceramic zumbidor","people_or_site":"Lagoa das Oncas, Upper Xingu (culture not identified)","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Upper Xingu / Mato Grosso","macroregion":"South America / Amazonia","local_name":"zumbidor","source_term":"zumbidor (Portuguese catalog term)","source_language":"Portuguese","object_description":"Elongated incised ceramic zumbidor, 18.5 cm long, 6.4 cm at its widest, 2.0 cm thick, with a terminal bore of 0.5 x 1.2 cm and wear at its openings; distinctive incisions.","function_summary":"Not recorded: the Goeldi catalog classifies it organologically as a rotary free aerophone — the bullroarer class — but no cultural use survives with the object.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"cohen_venturieri_2021_zumbidor","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://livroaberto.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/1029","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 69-70 (photo p. 69, text p. 70)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Upper Xingu headwaters anchor near Lake Ipavu, Mato Grosso, in the district of Becquelin's Ipavu-phase archaeology; the Lagoa das Onças itself is not on modern maps.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Nearly every bullroarer in the world's collections is wood or bone; the one from Lagoa das Onças is fired clay. Eighteen and a half centimetres of dark incised ceramic, bored at one end for its cord and worn smooth around the openings, it was brought out of the Upper Xingu by the archaeologist Pierre Becquelin and sits in the Goeldi Museum among the ancient instruments of the Amazon. It is classed by its mechanics — a rotary free aerophone — and nothing else came down with it: no maker's people, no date, no memory of what its clay voice was for.","pull_quote":"Aerofone livre de interrupção não autófono giratório.","pull_quote_translation":"Free interruptive aerophone, non-autophonic, rotary.","pull_quote_cite":"Cohen & Venturieri, Arqueologia musical amazônica (2021), p. 70","term_gloss":"zumbidor — Portuguese, 'buzzer/whirrer'; the Brazilian catalog term for the bullroarer class.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 1000–1600 AD","date_qualification":"Ipavu cultural horizon; object undated.","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"cohen2021_lagoa_oncas_zumbidor, Cohen and Venturieri 2021 pp. 69–70; Becquelin 2000 pp. 15, 29, 37–38","sources":[{"citation":"Liliam Cristina Barros Cohen & Leonardo Vieira Venturieri, Arqueologia musical amazônica: catálogo de instrumentos tapajônicos e marajoaras pré-cabralinos do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (UFPA, 2021), pp. 69-70; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, inv. 2011","url":"https://livroaberto.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/1029","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260101151049/https://livroaberto.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/1029"}],"source_citations":"Liliam Cristina Barros Cohen & Leonardo Vieira Venturieri, Arqueologia musical amazônica: catálogo de instrumentos tapajônicos e marajoaras pré-cabralinos do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (UFPA, 2021), pp. 69-70; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, inv. 2011","source_display":"Liliam Cristina Barros Cohen & Leonardo Vieira Venturieri, Arqueologia musical amazônica: catálogo de instrumentos tapajônicos e marajoaras pré-cabralinos do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (UFPA, 2021), pp. 69-70; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, inv. 2011","date_citation_display":"Cohen and Venturieri 2021 pp. 69–70; Becquelin 2000 pp. 15, 29, 37–38","object_display":"Elongated incised ceramic zumbidor, 18.5 cm long, 6.4 cm at its widest, 2.0 cm thick, with a terminal bore of 0.5 x 1.2 cm and wear at its openings; distinctive incisions.","function_display":"Not recorded: the Goeldi catalog classifies it organologically as a rotary free aerophone — the bullroarer class — but no cultural use survives with the object.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lagoa das","display_name":"Lagoa das Onças ceramic zumbidor","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_03/COHEN2021-001_mpeg2011_face.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_03/thumbs/COHEN2021-001_mpeg2011_face_thumb.jpg","credit":"Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, 2011; photo: Lohana Gomes, in Cohen & Venturieri, Arqueologia musical amazônica (2021), p. 71","license":"Acesso Aberto; Este item está licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons; Atribuição-NãoComercial-SemDerivações 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.pt-br","source_page":"https://livroaberto.ufpa.br/items/1378c8ec-804f-494d-899a-00d64eb188bb","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Waisted ceramic blade with a perforated end and incised lines.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_03/COHEN2021-001_mpeg2011_views.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_03/thumbs/COHEN2021-001_mpeg2011_views_thumb.jpg","credit":"Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, 2011; photo: Lohana Gomes, in Cohen & Venturieri, Arqueologia musical amazônica (2021), p. 71","license":"Acesso Aberto; Este item está licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons; Atribuição-NãoComercial-SemDerivações 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.pt-br","source_page":"https://livroaberto.ufpa.br/items/1378c8ec-804f-494d-899a-00d64eb188bb","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Five views of the same ceramic blade, showing both faces, the edges and the perforated end."}]},"slug":"cohen2021-001-lagoa-das-oncas-upper-xingu-culture-not-identified"}