{"id":"MUS2026-195","label":"Shipaulovi Hopi tovolpi, for dance and play","people_or_site":"Hopi, Shipaulovi (Second Mesa), Arizona","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Second Mesa, Arizona","macroregion":"North America / Southwest","local_name":"tovolpi","source_term":"","source_language":"Norwegian","object_description":"Decorated wooden slat with one terminal hole, single fibre cord and toggle — Kulturhistorisk museum Oslo UEM13727, acquired via Ole M. Solberg.","function_summary":"Used partly by men in dances, partly by children as a toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"khm_oslo_uem13727","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213477351","page_or_plate":"KHM Oslo catalogue record UEM13727","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Shipaulovi village, Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Arizona; a village point, set slightly apart from neighbouring Mishongnovi and Shongopovi, all within a few kilometres.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Shipaulovi, smallest of the Second Mesa villages, kept its own form of the Hopi bullroarer's name: tovolpi. After the village's Snake race, boys and girls ran up the hill with cornstalks and melons for the crowd to snatch, and behind them came a man dressed as a warrior, in white kilt and antelope skin, twirling a whizzer. The decorated slat that carried the word to Norway crossed between two worlds at home — swung by men in the dances, and by children as a toy — the same humming wood serving the plaza ceremony and the game beside it.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"tovolpi — the Shipaulovi form; compare tovokinpi at neighbouring Shongopovi.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["snake","agriculture","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM13727; J. Walter Fewkes, Tusayan Snake Ceremonies, 16th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1897), pp. 283-284","url":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213477351","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013023321/https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213477351"}],"source_citations":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM13727; J. Walter Fewkes, Tusayan Snake Ceremonies, 16th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1897), pp. 283-284","source_display":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM13727; J. Walter Fewkes, Tusayan Snake Ceremonies, 16th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1897), pp. 283-284","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Decorated wooden slat with one terminal hole, single fibre cord and toggle — Kulturhistorisk museum Oslo UEM13727, acquired via Ole M. Solberg.","function_display":"Used partly by men in dances, partly by children as a toy.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"hopi","display_name":"Shipaulovi Hopi tovolpi, for dance and play","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_10_03/MUS2026-195_shipaulovi_left.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_10_03/MUS2026-195_shipaulovi_left_thumb.jpg","credit":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM13727 (photo Marten Teigen); rotated 180° by The Bullroarer Atlas","license":"CC BY-SA (version unstated in record)","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213477351","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Shipaulovi tovolpi with its painted blade, cord, and wooden toggle.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_10_03/MUS2026-195_mqb_companion_crop.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_10_03/MUS2026-195_mqb_companion_crop_thumb.jpg","credit":"© musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (71.1885.78.221.1-2); delivery letterboxing cropped","license":"© musée du quai Branly — rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1885.78.221.1-2","rehosted":true,"caption":"For comparison, another Hopi bullroarer, in the Musée du quai Branly: a painted slat with a lightning stripe, corded to a red handle stick."}]},"slug":"mus2026-195-hopi-shipaulovi-second-mesa-arizona"}