{"id":"MUS2026-345","label":"Baniwa Taracuá complete handled rig","people_or_site":"Baniwa","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Taracuá, Rio Uaupés","macroregion":"South America / Amazonia","local_name":"","source_term":"Vinare","source_language":"Swedish","object_description":"An 81 cm assembly preserving the long wooden blade, cord and separate wooden handle.","function_summary":"A toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smvk_1928_01_0117","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/48695","page_or_plate":"1928.01.0117","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Taracuá locality anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Taracuá stands on the Uaupés, in the heartland of the Kuwai or Jurupari cult, where a sacred voice is kept from women and revealed only to initiated men. That voice belongs to the great paxiuba-palm flutes and trumpets, said to be the body of a slain creator-child — not to the whirled blade. Otto Zerries went hunting for a link between the bullroarer and Jurupari and reported plainly that he could not find one anywhere in the literature. The Gothenburg catalogue calls this eighty-one-centimetre rig, blade and cord and handle still together, a bullroarer and a toy.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"vinare (Swedish): 'bullroarer'.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["snake","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Världskulturmuseet (Museum of World Culture), Gothenburg, object 1928.01.0117; Taracuá, Rio Uaupés; blade, cord and handle","url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/48695","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220812180248/https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/48695"}],"source_citations":"Världskulturmuseet (Museum of World Culture), Gothenburg, object 1928.01.0117; Taracuá, Rio Uaupés; blade, cord and handle","source_display":"Världskulturmuseet (Museum of World Culture), Gothenburg, object 1928.01.0117; Taracuá, Rio Uaupés; blade, cord and handle","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"An 81 cm assembly preserving the long wooden blade, cord and separate wooden handle.","function_display":"A toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"baniwa","display_name":"Baniwa Taracuá complete handled rig","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/MUS2026-345_smvk_1928-01-0117.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/thumbs/MUS2026-345_smvk_1928-01-0117_thumb.jpg","credit":"Statens museer för världskultur (1928.01.0117)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/48695","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Taracuá rig complete: blade inked 'DARACUA', cord, and its wooden handle.","last_modified":"2026-09-01"},"slug":"mus2026-345-baniwa"}