{"id":"INC1978-001","label":"Shipibo-Conibo palo zumbador Yarinacocha","people_or_site":"Shipibo-Conibo","country_current":"Peru","historic_region":"Yarinacocha / Ucayali","macroregion":"South America / Upper Amazon","local_name":"","source_term":"palo zumbador","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Small lamina with a terminal groove or hole tied by cord to a stick and whirled in a circle so it turns through the air and hums.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"inc1978_shipibo_palo_zumbador","source_type":"ethnographic_survey","source_url":"https://es.scribd.com/document/401461427/INC-1978-Mapa-de-los-instrumentos-musicales-de-uso-popular-en-el-Peru-pdf","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 461-462","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Laguna Yarinacocha source-area anchor: the bibliography names a 1975 field notebook there, while the instrument entry names only Shipibo-Conibo.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A small wooden blade, grooved or pierced at one end and tied by a long cord to a stick: swept in a circle, it spun on its own axis and filled the air with a hum. This palo zumbador — the 'buzzing stick' — belongs to the Shipibo-Conibo, the riverine designers of the Ucayali, whose healers sing medicine songs said to follow the same maze-like kené patterns they paint on cloth, pottery and skin.","pull_quote":"Palo Zumbador. Localizacion Cultural: Shipibo-Conibo. PANO.","pull_quote_translation":"Palo Zumbador. Cultural location: Shipibo-Conibo. Pano.","pull_quote_cite":"Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Peru (1978), p. 462.","term_gloss":"palo zumbador: Spanish catalogue term for the cord-whirled free aerophone.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (1978), pp. 461-462","url":"https://es.scribd.com/document/401461427/INC-1978-Mapa-de-los-instrumentos-musicales-de-uso-popular-en-el-Peru-pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260716195521/https://es.scribd.com/document/401461427/INC-1978-Mapa-de-los-instrumentos-musicales-de-uso-popular-en-el-Peru-pdf"}],"source_citations":"Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (1978), pp. 461-462","source_display":"Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (1978), pp. 461-462","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small lamina with a terminal groove or hole tied by cord to a stick and whirled in a circle so it turns through the air and hums.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"shipibo conibo","display_name":"Shipibo-Conibo palo zumbador Yarinacocha","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-084_mqb_71-1980-61-50_matsigenka.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-084_mqb_71-1980-61-50_matsigenka_thumb.jpg","alt":"A red-stained Matsigenka child’s wooden bullroarer from the Río Urubamba, tapering at both ends, with scattered small surface holes and no attached cord.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac","license":"N/A","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/185049","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Red-stained wooden rhombe made for a Matsigenka child, Río Urubamba.","pool_id":"auto-MUS2026-084_mqb_71-1980-61-50_matsigenka","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"inc1978-001-shipibo-conibo"}