{"id":"JSTEWARD1943-002","label":"Bannock wupu'nonoyuwin, Fort Hall","people_or_site":"Northern Paiute-speaking Bannock, Fort Hall","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Fort Hall, Snake River plain, southeastern Idaho","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"wupu'nonoyuwin","source_term":"bull-roarer (wupu'nonoyuwin)","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden whirrer fitted with a wooden handle.","function_summary":"A children's toy; also whirled 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, 333, 383, 384","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Fort Hall, Idaho, where Steward places the band; the Bannock and the Bohogue Shoshoni lived there together. A representative territory point for the named people; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Bannock wintered with the Shoshoni at Fort Hall, travelled with them and married them, and kept their own language through all of it. For all the differences that closeness left standing between the two peoples, the bullroarer was not one of them. Both swung a wooden blade on a wooden handle, both for children and for warm wind, and both named it with the same construction — a booming root under a prefix meaning 'by means of a long swung thing'. What the Bannock kept that their neighbours did not was the far side of the weather rule, and it attached to a second whirring instrument, the buzzer: where a summer-born person swinging the roarer calls the warm wind, a winter-born person whirring the buzzer in winter brings the storms.","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, 383 and 384","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, 383 and 384","source_display":"Julian H. Steward, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXIII, Northern and Gosiute Shoshoni,' Anthropological Records 8:3 (1943), pp. 264, 333, 383 and 384","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden whirrer fitted with a wooden handle.","function_display":"A children's toy; also whirled to bring warm wind.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"northern paiute","display_name":"Bannock wupu'nonoyuwin, Fort Hall","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NAMER-008_prm_1903-36-42_mishongnovi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAMER-008_prm_1903-36-42_mishongnovi_thumb.jpg","alt":"Hopi bullroarer with cord and handle, Mishongnovi (Pitt Rivers Museum 1903.36.42).","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1903.36.42)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39592","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Hopi bullroarer with cord and handle, Mishongnovi (Pitt Rivers Museum 1903.36.42).","pool_id":"american-west-hopi-mishongnovi","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"jsteward1943-002-northern-paiute-speaking-bannock-fort-hall"}