{"id":"KASTNER1991-001","label":"Krẽpumkateye seed-wing whirler","people_or_site":"Krẽpumkateye (Eastern Timbira)","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Maranhão / left bank of the middle Grajaú River","macroregion":"South America / Brazil","local_name":"poegakyíke","source_term":"Schwirrholz aus einer Baumfrucht; zunidor","source_language":"German / Portuguese","object_description":"Two dried wings of a tree fruit tied to the end of a long braided cord; 137.5 cm overall with cord. Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden 44588.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"skd_44588_krepumkateye_poegakyike","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1662050","page_or_plate":"SKD object 1662050; Kästner 1991 p. 153 table","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative point on the left (west) bank of the middle Grajaú River, Maranhão, per Kästner 1991 p. 153; no village recorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Nature supplied the blade. Two papery wings of a dried tree fruit are tied to the end of a long braided cord, and the whole thing whirls as a bullroarer, poegakyíke. It comes from the Krẽpumkateye, an Eastern Timbira people who in 1928–29 lived on the left bank of the middle Grajaú River in Maranhão, together with their bows, arrows, ornaments and basketry.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","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":"Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, inv. 44588, 'Schwirrholz aus einer Baumfrucht (poegakyíke)'","url":"https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1662050"},{"citation":"Klaus-Peter Kästner, 'As coleções brasileiras do Museu Estatal de Etnologia de Dresden,' Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia 1 (1991): 147–163, p. 153","url":"https://revistas.usp.br/revmae/article/download/107954/106294"}],"source_citations":"Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, inv. 44588, 'Schwirrholz aus einer Baumfrucht (poegakyíke)'; Klaus-Peter Kästner, 'As coleções brasileiras do Museu Estatal de Etnologia de Dresden,' Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia 1 (1991): 147–163, p. 153","source_display":"Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, inv. 44588, 'Schwirrholz aus einer Baumfrucht (poegakyíke)'; Klaus-Peter Kästner, 'As coleções brasileiras do Museu Estatal de Etnologia de Dresden,' Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia 1 (1991): 147–163, p. 153","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two dried wings of a tree fruit tied to the end of a long braided cord; 137.5 cm overall with cord. Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden 44588.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pumkateye","display_name":"Krẽpumkateye seed-wing whirler","image":{"full":"assets/objects/KASTNER1991-001_dresden_44588.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/KASTNER1991-001_dresden_44588_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long braided cotton cord ending in two dried, wing-shaped fruit husks.","credit":"Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, inv. 44588","source_page":"https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1662050","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Krẽpumkateye poegakyíke: two dried fruit wings on a long braided cord, collected by Nimuendajú 1928–29. Dresden 44588.","last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"kastner1991-001-krepumkateye-eastern-timbira"}