{"id":"JSTEWARD1943-001","label":"Bohogue Shoshoni wiipunonohwi at Fort Hall","people_or_site":"Bohogue Shoshoni ('sagebrush-butte people'), Fort Hall","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Snake River plain about Fort Hall, southeastern Idaho","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"wiipunonohwi","source_term":"bull-roarer (wiipunonohwi)","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden whirrer fitted with a wooden handle.","function_summary":"Swung as a children's toy and swung to bring warm wind.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"steward1943_ced23_northern_gosiute_shoshoni","source_type":"culture_element_distribution","source_url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-004.pdf","page_or_plate":"Steward 1943, pp. 264, 265, 333, 383","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Winter range on the Snake River in the vicinity of Fort Hall, Idaho, which Steward gives as the band's own wintering ground and on which the reservation was later established. Spring-to-fall range was wide and is not represented. Not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Fort Hall the Bohogue swung a wooden slat on a wooden handle to bring the warm wind, and let their children swing it as well. They called it wiipunonohwi. Steward translated that 'spinner', but the word does not say spin: it is built from the prefix for acting by means of a long object and the root Sapir records for making a drumming, booming noise. The name is the sound. So is the people's own - bohovi, the sagebrush, and gue, the buttes standing north of the Snake River where they wintered.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Julian H. Steward, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXIII, Northern and Gosiute Shoshoni,' Anthropological Records 8:3 (1943), pp. 264, 333 (elements 1974-1980) and 383","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-004.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260814094033/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-004.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Julian H. Steward, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXIII, Northern and Gosiute Shoshoni,' Anthropological Records 8:3 (1943), pp. 264, 333 (elements 1974-1980) and 383","source_display":"Julian H. Steward, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXIII, Northern and Gosiute Shoshoni,' Anthropological Records 8:3 (1943), pp. 264, 333 (elements 1974-1980) and 383","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden whirrer fitted with a wooden handle.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bohogue shoshoni","display_name":"Bohogue Shoshoni wiipunonohwi at Fort Hall","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-191_qb_135654_xilatzen.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-191_qb_135654_xilatzen_thumb.jpg","alt":"San José Xilatzén bullroarer from the Huasteca: a pale flat blade with a rounded paddle-like end and an intact looped henequen-fibre suspension rig.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1938.164.352 (coll. Guy Stresser-Péan, entered 1938)","license":"N/A","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/ccProxy.ashx?action=get&command=search&query=/Record/ccObjectID=135654","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"San José Xilatzen bullroarer with intact henequen-fibre suspension rig, Musée du quai Branly.","pool_id":"american-mexico-xilatzen-rig","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"jsteward1943-001-bohogue-shoshoni-sagebrush-butte-people-fort-hall"}