{"id":"EXH2026-006","label":"Nordeste Brazil folk rói-rói (zunidor)","people_or_site":"Northeastern Brazilian folk (caboclo/sertanejo)","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Nordeste (sertao); sold at feiras across the region","macroregion":"South America / Brazil","local_name":"rói-rói (Nordeste) / zunidor (Rio de Janeiro) / berra-boi / sonidor / zumbidor","source_term":"zumbidor; rói-rói (Nordeste)","source_language":"Portuguese","object_description":"A scrap of wood, or a plate of bone, ivory, metal or plastic, on the end of a cord, sounding as it is whirled in a circle.","function_summary":"Children's plaything and noisemaker, sold at the feiras.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"exhaustiveness2026","source_type":"secondary_literature","source_url":"https://www.musis.pt/zunidor/","page_or_plate":"musis.pt/zunidor + /berra-boi","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Nordeste interior region centroid (region-level only)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the open-air markets of the Brazilian Northeast the whirled board is sold as a children's toy: a scrap of wood, bone or plastic tied to the end of a cord, that hums when swung overhead. Câmara Cascudo, cataloguing it in his Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro, sorts its names by region: in the Nordeste it is the rói-rói, while zunidor is its name in Rio de Janeiro; sonidor, zumbidor, and berra-boi run alongside, several of them onomatopoeic for the lowing of an ox or the creak of an ox-cart. Farther south, as the berra-boi, the same whirled board goes out in Lent and Holy Week with the Encomendação das Almas, the nighttime soul-commendation in which penitents pass through houses, cemeteries, and crossroads asking prayers for the dead.","pull_quote":"No Nordeste do Brasil vê-se muito em feiras e tem diversos nomes: rói-rói, sonidor, zumbidor, zunidor.","pull_quote_translation":"In the Northeast of Brazil it is seen a great deal at the markets and goes by various names: rói-rói, sonidor, zumbidor, zunidor.","pull_quote_cite":"MUSIS organology reference, s.v. \"berra-boi\"","term_gloss":"Onomatopoeic Portuguese folk names for the whirled board — rói-rói in the Nordeste, zunidor (\"buzzer,\" from zunir, to whir) in Rio de Janeiro, with sonidor, zumbidor, and berra-boi (\"ox-beller\") alongside.","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,"etymology":"Berra-boi is the ox-beller, from berrar, to bellow, and boi, ox: named for a sound like the lowing of an ox or the creak of an ox-cart.","literal_gloss":"ox-beller / ox-yeller","semantic_cluster":"animal_voice; onomatopoeia","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Luís da Câmara Cascudo, Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro, 6th ed. (Belo Horizonte: Itatiaia; São Paulo: EDUSP, 1988), s.v. 'Zumbidor', p. 811; MUSIS instrument encyclopedia (musis.pt), s.v. 'Berra-boi, Brasil'","url":"https://www.musis.pt/zunidor/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260608075220/https://www.musis.pt/zunidor/"}],"source_citations":"Luís da Câmara Cascudo, Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro, 6th ed. (Belo Horizonte: Itatiaia; São Paulo: EDUSP, 1988), s.v. 'Zumbidor', p. 811; MUSIS instrument encyclopedia (musis.pt), s.v. 'Berra-boi, Brasil'","source_display":"Luís da Câmara Cascudo, Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro, 6th ed. (Belo Horizonte: Itatiaia; São Paulo: EDUSP, 1988), s.v. 'Zumbidor', p. 811; MUSIS instrument encyclopedia (musis.pt), s.v. 'Berra-boi, Brasil'","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A scrap of wood, or a plate of bone, ivory, metal or plastic, on the end of a cord, sounding as it is whirled in a circle.","function_display":"Children's plaything and noisemaker, sold at the feiras.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"northeastern brazilian","display_name":"Nordeste Brazil folk rói-rói (zunidor)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EXH2026-036_soinuenea_30369_zunidor.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EXH2026-036_soinuenea_30369_zunidor_thumb.jpg","alt":"Brazilian zunidor with dark crosshatched carving, a red cord and wooden-ball grip.","credit":"Soinuenea Folk Music Corner, Oiartzun (SHMT 30369)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.soinuenea.eus/eu/rhombo-zumbador/er-30369/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Brazilian zumbidor with cross-hatched carving and red cord.","pool_id":"auto-EXH2026-036_soinuenea_30369_zunidor"},"slug":"exh2026-006-northeastern-brazilian-folk-caboclo-sertanejo"}