{"id":"JSTEWARD1943-003","label":"Promontory and Cache Valley newUkivo, swung for weather","people_or_site":"Shoshoni of Promontory Point and Cache Valley: Huk'undUka and Pankwi-dUka","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Promontory Point and the lower Bear River, north shore of Great Salt Lake, and Cache Valley, northern Utah","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"newUkivo","source_term":"bull-roarer (newUkivo)","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden whirrer fitted with a wooden handle.","function_summary":"Swung to bring warm wind, by a person born in summer; the toy use is denied.","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","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Promontory Point and the lower Bear River, the territory Steward names first for this composite list. The list also covers the Pankwi-dUka of Cache Valley, roughly 60 km east-northeast, which this single dot does not represent. Not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Shoshoni of Promontory Point and Cache Valley the bullroarer was not a toy. Alone among the Northern Shoshoni in Julian Steward's account, they kept it for the weather and not for play, and gave the work to one kind of person only: someone born in summer. Of the summer-born at Fort Hall, who went out to observe the summer rain, Steward was careful to add that the distinction conferred nothing else - it bought no standing, no calling, no rank, and stopped at the edge of the weather. The Promontory name for the instrument, newUkivo, has nothing in common with the booming compounds of Fort Hall and the Bannock, and he left it untranslated.","pull_quote":"This distinction of summer and winter-born people is not carried beyond this slight control of weather.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Steward 1943, p. 384, on the summer-born at Fort Hall.","term_gloss":"","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather"],"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":"Swung to bring warm wind, by a person born in summer; the toy use is denied.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"shoshoni promontory","display_name":"Promontory and Cache Valley newUkivo, swung for weather","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BOURKE1892-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BOURKE1892-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"Mishongnovi Hopi bullroarer: a white-painted wooden blade with a yellow-green zigzag snake outlined in black running along its length, and a hole near one rounded end.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum, Am1891,0612.21","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am1891-0612-21","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Painted Hopi snake-lightning bullroarer from Mishongnovi, British Museum.","pool_id":"american-west-hopi-snake-lightning","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"jsteward1943-003-shoshoni-of-promontory-point-and-cache-valley-huk-unduka-and-pankwi-duka"}