{"id":"CROVETTO1968-002","label":"Vilela kiré ajlipié bullroarer, eastern Chaco","people_or_site":"Vilela","country_current":"Argentina","historic_region":"Eastern Chaco","macroregion":"South America / Gran Chaco","local_name":"kiré ajlipié","source_term":"palo zumbador","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Rectangular guayacán board about 15-20 by 2 cm, pierced at one end; a one-metre caraguatá-fibre cord joins it to a small perforated handle.","function_summary":"Children's toy of the early twentieth century.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"martinez_crovetto1968_vilela_games","source_type":"scholarly_article","source_url":"https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/etno/article/download/2152/1878","page_or_plate":"p. 11","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Eastern Chaco cultural-area anchor; source names no specific community.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When the botanist Raúl Martínez-Crovetto went looking for Vilela games in the 1960s, he could ask almost no one: his sources were Basilia López, 58, and her husband Juan Álvarez, 68 — two of the last speakers of a language then already dying out in the eastern Chaco. They remembered the kiré ajlipié, 'the stick that spins': a slip of guayacán wood on a metre of caraguatá-fibre cord, swung from a small perforated handle, a children's toy of the century's first years. Little else of a Vilela childhood was left to record.","pull_quote":"Con una tablita delgada de guayacán (Caesalpinia paraguariensis), de unos 15 ó 20 cm de largo por 2 cm de ancho, de forma rectangular, construían el 'palo zumbador'. Los niños lo usaban como juguete.","pull_quote_translation":"With a thin rectangular board of guayacán wood, some 15 or 20 cm long by 2 cm wide, they built the palo zumbador. The children used it as a toy.","pull_quote_cite":"Martínez-Crovetto, 'Algunos juegos de los indios vilelas,' Etnobiológica 5 (1968), p. 11.","term_gloss":"kiré ajlipié = 'el palo da vueltas' (the stick that spins).","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, 'Algunos juegos de los indios vilelas,' Etnobiológica 5 (1968), p. 11 (informants Basilia López and Juan Álvarez)","url":"https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/etno/article/download/2152/1878","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250716174134/https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/etno/article/download/2152/1878"}],"source_citations":"Raúl Martínez-Crovetto, 'Algunos juegos de los indios vilelas,' Etnobiológica 5 (1968), p. 11 (informants Basilia López and Juan Álvarez)","source_display":"Raúl Martínez-Crovetto, 'Algunos juegos de los indios vilelas,' Etnobiológica 5 (1968), p. 11 (informants Basilia López and Juan Álvarez)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rectangular guayacán board about 15-20 by 2 cm, pierced at one end; a one-metre caraguatá-fibre cord joins it to a small perforated handle.","function_display":"Children's toy of the early twentieth century.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"vilela","display_name":"Vilela kiré ajlipié bullroarer, eastern Chaco","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Am1937-0316-28-a.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Am1937-0316-28-a_thumb.jpg","alt":"Eastern Mataco (Wichí) bullroarer from the Bermejo River, Gran Chaco: a dark wooden blade with cord wrapped around its middle.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (E/Am1937-0316-28-a)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am1937-0316-28-a","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Eastern Mataco/Wichí bullroarer from the Bermejo River country.","pool_id":"gran-chaco-wichi"},"slug":"crovetto1968-002-vilela"}