{"id":"CROVETTO1968-001","label":"Mbyá-Guaraní waimí kerambú bamboo bullroarer, Misiones","people_or_site":"Mbyá-Guaraní","country_current":"Argentina","historic_region":"Misiones","macroregion":"South America / Southern Cone","local_name":"waimí kerambú","source_term":"palo zumbador; first of two toys called waimí kerambú","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Bamboo (takuára/takuarusú) lamina about 20 by 3 cm, perforated at one end and spun from a cord about 2 m long.","function_summary":"Made by men and boys solely to amuse younger children; explicitly a toy, not a musical instrument.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"martinez_crovetto1968_mbya_games","source_type":"scholarly_article","source_url":"https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/etno/article/download/2153/1879","page_or_plate":"p. 18 and Fig. 3A","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Misiones province cultural-area anchor; source names no community.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Mbyá of the Misiones forest cut this roarer from a bamboo internode and named it waimí kerambú — 'the old snoring woman.' A slat of takuára some twenty centimetres long, pierced at one end and whirled on two metres of cord, it gave a deep, loud hum; Martínez-Crovetto, recording Mbyá games in the 1960s, is emphatic that men and boys made it solely to amuse the smallest children. The same name covered a second humming toy, a twist-spun disc cut from a gourd.","pull_quote":"\"Waimí kerambú\" quiere decir \"vieja roncadora\" y los dos elementos que hemos descripto, conocidos bajo este nombre, se utilizan como juguetes y no como instrumentos musicales.","pull_quote_translation":"'Waimí kerambú' means 'old snoring woman', and the two objects described under this name are used as toys, not as musical instruments.","pull_quote_cite":"Martínez-Crovetto, 'Juegos y deportes de los indios guaraníes de Misiones,' Etnobiológica 6 (1968), p. 18.","term_gloss":"waimí kerambú = 'vieja roncadora' (old snoring woman); applied to both the corded blade and a twist 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":"Raúl Martínez-Crovetto, 'Juegos y deportes de los indios guaraníes de Misiones (República Argentina),' Etnobiológica 6 (1968), p. 18 and fig. 3A","url":"https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/etno/article/download/2153/1879","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250716180654/https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/etno/article/download/2153/1879"}],"source_citations":"Raúl Martínez-Crovetto, 'Juegos y deportes de los indios guaraníes de Misiones (República Argentina),' Etnobiológica 6 (1968), p. 18 and fig. 3A","source_display":"Raúl Martínez-Crovetto, 'Juegos y deportes de los indios guaraníes de Misiones (República Argentina),' Etnobiológica 6 (1968), p. 18 and fig. 3A","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bamboo (takuára/takuarusú) lamina about 20 by 3 cm, perforated at one end and spun from a cord about 2 m long.","function_display":"Made by men and boys solely to amuse younger children; explicitly a toy, not a musical instrument.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mby guaran","display_name":"Mbyá-Guaraní waimí kerambú bamboo bullroarer, Misiones","image":{"full":"assets/objects/CROVETTO1968-001_crovetto1968_fig3a_palo_zumbador.png","thumb":"assets/objects/CROVETTO1968-001_crovetto1968_fig3a_palo_zumbador_thumb.png","credit":"Raúl Martínez-Crovetto, \"Juegos y deportes de los indios guaraníes de Misiones\", Etnobiológica 6 (1968), p. 7, fig. 3A","license":"In copyright — Martínez-Crovetto died 1988, so the drawing is protected in Argentina to 2058 and in the United States to 2063. The journal publishes open access but states no reuse licence anywhere, so the terms are unstated rather than granted. Reproduced here from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste's own open-access scan; reuse terms are being sought from UNNE.","source_page":"https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/etno/article/view/2153","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Martínez-Crovetto's drawing of the waimí kerambú, the Mbyá bamboo roarer, pierced at one end for its cord."},"slug":"crovetto1968-001-mbya-guarani"}