{"id":"EXH2026-028","label":"Kogi seibuká, the boys’ plaything","people_or_site":"Kagaba (Kogi)","country_current":"Colombia","historic_region":"Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta","macroregion":"South America / Northwest","local_name":"seibuká","source_term":"seibuká (das Schwirrholz)","source_language":"German","object_description":"Bullroarer.","function_summary":"Boys' plaything.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"exhaustiveness2026","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/anthropos_1919-1920_14-15","page_or_plate":"Preuss1919/20 p.1049 n.1; context pp.368–370,377–378 | Zerries 1964 p.203; Karte40 no.5","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Kogi heartland, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Gauteovan, the Kágaba Mother of Fire, was mother of the sun, rain, rivers and thunders, of dance and songs, festival implements, temples and all things. Future máma priests spent nine years in dark seclusion, avoiding salt and learning sacred songs; some trained for twice nine years. The boys had an instrument of their own: the seibuká, a whirling plaything whose name contains a root meaning “to hurl.”","pull_quote":"Wird nur von Knaben benützt.","pull_quote_translation":"Used only by boys.","pull_quote_cite":"Preuss, \"Forschungsreise zu den Kágaba-Indianern,\" Anthropos 14–15 (1919/20), p. 1049 n. 1","term_gloss":"seibuká — Kágaba (Kogi) name for the bullroarer, containing the root ibusi \"to sling, throw\" (Preuss cites it, with sibuká \"the one spinning a thread,\" to etymologize ábukaj, the powder packet \"that throws out the powder\").","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":"Preuss finds the root ibusi, \"to sling, throw,\" in seibuká.","literal_gloss":"thing for slinging / throwing","semantic_cluster":"throwing; whirling_motion","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Konrad Theodor Preuss, “Forschungsreise zu den Kágaba-Indianern der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,” Anthropos 14–15 (1919/20), pp. 368–370, 377–378, 1049 n. 1.","url":"https://archive.org/details/anthropos_1919-1920_14-15/page/1049/mode/1up"},{"citation":"Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Los Kogi, vol. I (1950), p. 81.","url":"https://publicaciones.icanh.gov.co/index.php/picanh/catalog/download/256/278/1910?inline=1","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013011421/https://publicaciones.icanh.gov.co/index.php/picanh/catalog/download/256/278/1910?inline=1"},{"citation":"Otto Zerries, Waika (1964), p. 203, map 40.","url":"https://www.samorini.it/doc1/alt_aut/sz/zerries-waika-die-kulturgeschichtliche-stellung-der-waika-indianer.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20221125044950/https://www.samorini.it/doc1/alt_aut/sz/zerries-waika-die-kulturgeschichtliche-stellung-der-waika-indianer.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Konrad Theodor Preuss, “Forschungsreise zu den Kágaba-Indianern der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,” Anthropos 14–15 (1919/20), pp. 368–370, 377–378, 1049 n. 1.; Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Los Kogi, vol. I (1950), p. 81.; Otto Zerries, Waika (1964), p. 203, map 40.","source_display":"Konrad Theodor Preuss, “Forschungsreise zu den Kágaba-Indianern der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,” Anthropos 14–15 (1919/20), pp. 368–370, 377–378, 1049 n. 1.; Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Los Kogi, vol. I (1950), p. 81.; Otto Zerries, Waika (1964), p. 203, map 40.","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer.","function_display":"Boys' plaything.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kagaba","display_name":"Kogi seibuká, the boys’ plaything","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SAMER-001_vkm_1935_14_0065.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SAMER-001_vkm_1935_14_0065_thumb.jpg","alt":"A pale wooden Noanamá bull-roarer with dark painted bands and cross marks, photographed horizontally.","credit":"Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg (1935.14.0065)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/1935.14.0065","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Chocó bullroarer from Colombia.","pool_id":"auto-SAMER-001_vkm_1935_14_0065"},"slug":"exh2026-028-kagaba-kogi"}