{"id":"GOLDMAN1963-001","label":"Cubeo stone bullroarer, Cuduyari River","people_or_site":"Cubeo (Kubeo)","country_current":"Colombia","historic_region":"Cuduyari River / Vaupes","macroregion":"South America / Northwest Amazonia","local_name":"","source_term":"stone bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Stone bullroarer, a shaman's weapon.","function_summary":"Lethal sorcery: the shaman whirls it to strike down a victim from afar.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"goldman1963_cubeo_stone_bullroarer","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://acervo.socioambiental.org/sites/default/files/documents/qbl00001.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 268 (PDF p. 280)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Cuduyari River reference point near Mitu; Goldman names the field region, not a village or performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Cubeo of the Cuduyarí River, the shaman — the yaví, the 'jaguar' — was the one truly feared figure, said to grow more malevolent with age until he could put on a jaguar skin and take the animal's form. Irving Goldman, who lived on the river in 1939-40, set down the yaví's ways of killing at a distance: spines and crystals shot invisibly into the body, victims made to die inside their own dreams, a soul drawn down as a butterfly into a boiling pot and killed when the pot was smashed. Last on the list came a stone bullroarer. As the shaman whirled it, the victim — wherever he was — suffered as if struck with a machete.","pull_quote":"One yaví, it is said, had his daughter pick the bits of human flesh from his teeth with the fang of a serpent.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon (1963), p. 263.","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["snake"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon (1963; 1979 edition), p. 268","url":"https://acervo.socioambiental.org/sites/default/files/documents/qbl00001.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013012035/https://acervo.socioambiental.org/sites/default/files/documents/qbl00001.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon (1963; 1979 edition), p. 268","source_display":"Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon (1963; 1979 edition), p. 268","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Stone bullroarer, a shaman's weapon.","function_display":"Lethal sorcery: the shaman whirls it to strike down a victim from afar.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"cubeo","display_name":"Cubeo stone bullroarer, Cuduyari River","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/kochgruenberg1910_kobeua_abb90.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/kochgruenberg1910_kobeua_abb90_thumb.jpg","alt":"Koch-Grünberg's plate of Kobéua painted wooden fish figures used at the feast of the dead on the Rio Cuduiarý: dark fish forms in two columns with pale eyes, fins, stripes and zigzags.","credit":"Theodor Koch-Grünberg, Zwei Jahre unter den Indianern, vol. 2 (1910), Abb. 90","license":"Public domain","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/zwei-jahre-unter-den-indianern-t-koch-grunberg-band-2-1909-45000030641","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Koch-Grünberg’s painted Kobéua fish bullroarer from the Rio Cuduiarý.","pool_id":"cubeo-kobeua"},"slug":"goldman1963-001-cubeo-kubeo"}