{"id":"FONSECA2005-001","label":"Kisgo Manzanal bird-call zumbador","people_or_site":"Pueblo Kisgo (Kizgo)","country_current":"Colombia","historic_region":"Manzanal / Resguardo Indigena de Kisgo / Silvia / Cauca","macroregion":"South America / Andes","local_name":"","source_term":"zumbador","source_language":"Spanish / unglossed Kisgo word","object_description":"Thin wooden slat with one end hole and one knotted cord, moved in a circle; pitch varies with speed, wood weight, hole diameter, and cord length.","function_summary":"Elders remembered it as a childhood game imitating local bird calls; the 2005 recovery project rebuilt it and children competed in making and sounding it.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"fonseca_torres_2005_kisgo_zumbador","source_type":"primary_fieldwork","source_url":"https://repository.unilibre.edu.co/handle/10901/4897","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 111-113; Photograph 13 p. 112","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Rounded representative point within Kisgo territory near Silvia; not an asserted workshop or object location.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Manzanal, Kisgo elders remembered the zumbador as a childhood voice that imitated local birds. A thin sliver of resonant wood carried one knotted cord, and its pitch shifted with speed, weight, hole size, and cord length. In 2005, children made the remembered instrument again and competed to send it singing around them.","pull_quote":"A esta astilla se hace un agujero ... el juego consiste en tomar la pita y mover en forma circular la astilla.","pull_quote_translation":"A hole is made in the sliver; the game consists of taking the cord and moving the sliver in a circle.","pull_quote_cite":"Fonseca Camacho and Torres 2005:111","term_gloss":"zumbador: Spanish, 'hummer' or 'buzzer'; the game took the name because it imitates the songs of birds.","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":"Deivy Fonseca Camacho and Juan Pablo Torres, Conservación de los juegos tradicionales (2005), pp. 111-113, fig. 13","url":"https://repository.unilibre.edu.co/handle/10901/4897","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210804121223/https://repository.unilibre.edu.co/handle/10901/4897"}],"source_citations":"Deivy Fonseca Camacho and Juan Pablo Torres, Conservación de los juegos tradicionales (2005), pp. 111-113, fig. 13","source_display":"Deivy Fonseca Camacho and Juan Pablo Torres, Conservación de los juegos tradicionales (2005), pp. 111-113, fig. 13","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thin wooden slat with one end hole and one knotted cord, moved in a circle; pitch varies with speed, wood weight, hole diameter, and cord length.","function_display":"Elders remembered it as a childhood game imitating local bird calls; the 2005 recovery project rebuilt it and children competed in making and sounding it.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pueblo kisgo","display_name":"Kisgo Manzanal bird-call zumbador","image":{"full":"assets/objects/FONSECA2005-001_fonseca2005-001-kisgo-photo13.jpeg","thumb":"assets/objects/FONSECA2005-001_fonseca2005-001-kisgo-photo13_thumb.jpg","alt":"Kisgo zumbador reconstruction, 2005: a man in a checked shirt looks down at the small instrument held between his hands.","credit":"Deivy Fonseca Camacho and Juan Pablo Torres, Conservación de los juegos tradicionales (2005), photograph 13, p. 112","license":"Rights reserved; no open-reuse licence stated in thesis; rehosted for non-commercial research; permission may be required","source_page":"https://repository.unilibre.edu.co/handle/10901/4897","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Kisgo zumbador reconstruction, Manzanal recovery project, 2005. Photograph 13."},"slug":"fonseca2005-001-pueblo-kisgo-kizgo"}