{"id":"MUS2026-115","label":"Tembé (Tenetehara) bullroarer, Pará, 1957","people_or_site":"Tembé (Tenetehara), Pará","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Rio Acará, eastern Pará","macroregion":"South America / Amazonia","local_name":"","source_term":"Zunidor","source_language":"Portuguese","object_description":"An oblong wooden board, 18.2 cm long, one end notched and the other pierced, with a cotton cord hanging from the hole.","function_summary":"Function not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"deeper_harvest","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://pesquisa.museudoindio.gov.br/index.php/zunidor-3","page_or_plate":"Item 8111 - Zunidor","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Rio Acará drainage, the specific geography on the Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas Tainacan record; approximate river anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Tembé who made this little roarer — eighteen centimetres of oblong board on a cotton cord — call themselves Tenetehara, simply 'people'. Their forebears came west out of Maranhão in the mid-nineteenth century to settle the rivers of Pará, pushing onto the Acará into the lands of the Turiwara. From the Acará, in 1957, the government's Indian Protection Service sent the board to the national Indian museum in Rio de Janeiro.","pull_quote":"Zunidor confeccionado com prancha de madeira oblonga apresentando uma das extremidades entalhada e a outra exibindo um orifício de onde pende um fio de algodão","pull_quote_translation":"Bullroarer made from an oblong wooden board, one end carved and the other showing a hole from which a cotton thread hangs.","pull_quote_cite":"Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas / FUNAI, Item 8111 - Zunidor","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":"Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas / Museu do Índio (FUNAI), item 8111, 'Zunidor' (Tembé, Rio Acará, Pará; SPI collection, 1957)","url":"https://pesquisa.museudoindio.gov.br/index.php/zunidor-3","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013021637/https://pesquisa.museudoindio.gov.br/index.php/zunidor-3"}],"source_citations":"Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas / Museu do Índio (FUNAI), item 8111, 'Zunidor' (Tembé, Rio Acará, Pará; SPI collection, 1957)","source_display":"Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas / Museu do Índio (FUNAI), item 8111, 'Zunidor' (Tembé, Rio Acará, Pará; SPI collection, 1957)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"An oblong wooden board, 18.2 cm long, one end notched and the other pierced, with a cotton cord hanging from the hole.","function_display":"Function not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"temb","display_name":"Tembé (Tenetehara) bullroarer, Pará, 1957","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-115_vkm_1922-08-52_tembe.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-115_vkm_1922-08-52_tembe_thumb.jpg","alt":"A Xipaya toy bullroarer from the Curuá River, collected by Curt Nimuendajú and shown as a comparison: a pale paddle-shaped wooden blade with a perforated narrow end and long coiled cord.","credit":"Världskulturmuseerna / Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg (1922.08.0052); collected by Curt Nimuendajú","license":"CC BY 4.0 (Världskulturmuseerna)","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/34245","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A Xipaya toy bullroarer from the Curuá River, collected by Curt Nimuendajú, shown for comparison."},"slug":"mus2026-115-tembe-tenetehara-para"}