{"id":"MUS2026-022","label":"Cashinahua spear-point asu","people_or_site":"Cashinahua (Kaxinawá)","country_current":"Peru","historic_region":"Upper Purús/Juruá","macroregion":"South America / Upper Amazon","local_name":"asu","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Palo zumbador of thin wood in the form of a spear point (sharp triangle), decorated, tied by a cord; the registered example measures 20 cm long, 5 cm across the base, narrowing to 1 cm at a throat where the cord is tied.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","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":"INC 1978, p. 462, no. 9","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Cashinahua asu is shaped like a weapon: a thin wooden blade cut as a sharp spear point, decorated, twenty centimetres from base to tip, narrowing to a throat where its cord ties on. It belongs to the Cashinahua, a Panoan people of Peru's eastern forests; what they swung it for is lost.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"asu — the Cashinahua (Panoan) name for the palo zumbador in Peru's 1978 national instrument survey; no gloss or use is recorded with it.","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 (Peru), Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (1978), p. 462, entry 9","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 (Peru), Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (1978), p. 462, entry 9","source_display":"Instituto Nacional de Cultura (Peru), Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (1978), p. 462, entry 9","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Palo zumbador of thin wood in the form of a spear point (sharp triangle), decorated, tied by a cord; the registered example measures 20 cm long, 5 cm across the base, narrowing to 1 cm at a throat where the cord is tied.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"cashinahua","display_name":"Cashinahua spear-point asu","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":"Slender red-stained Matsigenka child's rhombe from the Río Urubamba, its cord now lost.","pool_id":"auto-MUS2026-084_mqb_71-1980-61-50_matsigenka","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"mus2026-022-cashinahua-kaxinawa"}