{"id":"MUS2026-155","label":"Tarëno roarer of the Paru de Oeste","people_or_site":"Tiriyó","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Paru de Oeste-Marapi basin, Tumucumaque Indigenous Park, Pará","macroregion":"South America / Guianas","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"28 cm wooden bullroarer board with a cord through its narrowed, pierced end (MKB IVc 16316 photograph).","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mkb_ivc_16316_tiriyo","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/?queries=query%3Dsearch%3DInventory%2520number%3DIVc%252016316%26showtype%3Drecord","page_or_plate":"MKB IVc 16316","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Brazilian Tiriyó regional anchor at the Paru de Oeste-Marapi basin. A FUNAI source gives a mission-era Brazilian Tiriyó center at 1°57' N, 55°49' W; this is not an asserted collection locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A broad wooden roarer, its cord still threaded through the narrowed end, carried out of the Tumucumaque uplands in 1974 — a decade after missions began gathering the scattered communities there into large mission settlements. The people it came from are known on maps as Tiriyó, but they call themselves Tarëno: 'people from here.'","pull_quote":"Schwirrholz. Tiriyó. Brasilien.","pull_quote_translation":"Bullroarer. Tiriyó. Brazil.","pull_quote_cite":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, IVc 16316.","term_gloss":"Schwirrholz: German museum-catalogue term; no Tiriyó name is recorded.","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":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, object IVc 16316, Schwirrholz, Tiriyó, Borys Malkin collection (received 1974)","url":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/?queries=query%3Dsearch%3DInventory%2520number%3DIVc%252016316%26showtype%3Drecord","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013022139/https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/?queries=query%3Dsearch%3DInventory%2520number%3DIVc%252016316%26showtype%3Drecord"}],"source_citations":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, object IVc 16316, Schwirrholz, Tiriyó, Borys Malkin collection (received 1974)","source_display":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, object IVc 16316, Schwirrholz, Tiriyó, Borys Malkin collection (received 1974)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"28 cm wooden bullroarer board with a cord through its narrowed, pierced end (MKB IVc 16316 photograph).","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tiriy","display_name":"Tarëno roarer of the Paru de Oeste","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-155_mkb_ivc_16316.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-155_mkb_ivc_16316_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Tiriyó bullroarer: a broad wooden board tapering to a narrowed pierced end, photographed beside a museum label and scale.","credit":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, IVc 16316","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/?queries=query%3Dsearch%3DInventory%2520number%3DIVc%252016316%26showtype%3Drecord","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Tiriyó specimen itself, a broad wooden board with its cord threaded through the narrowed end."},"slug":"mus2026-155-tiriyo"}