{"id":"MUS2026-363","label":"Xingu yellow-banded giant","people_or_site":"Xingu River people; specific community unrecorded","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Xingu River, Mato Grosso","macroregion":"South America / Amazonia","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A 27.8 in (70.6 cm) pointed elliptical wooden blade with sharp edges, a thick central spine, faded yellow painted bands, a narrow two-inch terminal slot, a drilled hole below it, and a short looped cotton cord.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"grinnell_7436","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/7436","page_or_plate":"item 7436; Description; Instrument Information; gallery #1 and details #1–2","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Upper Xingu regional anchor; the page gives Xingu River and Mato Grosso but no community or collecting locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A narrow slot cleaves one end of this nearly seventy-one-centimetre blade; the cord passes through a second hole and loops around the split, making the suspension part of the silhouette. Faded yellow bands cross its hand-whittled faces. The particular Xingu community and the instrument’s use were never recorded, so its unusual size and rigging carry the story alone.","pull_quote":"This bullroarer is quite long (close to 28 inches in length) in comparison to many bullroarers found around the world.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Grinnell College Musical Instrument Collection, item 7436, Description","term_gloss":"No local term 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":"Grinnell College Musical Instrument Collection item 7436; Xingu River, Mato Grosso, Brazil; 27.8 × 3.7 × 0.5 in; wood and twine","url":"https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/7436","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260207233149/https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/7436"}],"source_citations":"Grinnell College Musical Instrument Collection item 7436; Xingu River, Mato Grosso, Brazil; 27.8 × 3.7 × 0.5 in; wood and twine","source_display":"Grinnell College Musical Instrument Collection item 7436; Xingu River, Mato Grosso, Brazil; 27.8 × 3.7 × 0.5 in; wood and twine","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A 27.8 in (70.6 cm) pointed elliptical wooden blade with sharp edges, a thick central spine, faded yellow painted bands, a narrow two-inch terminal slot, a drilled hole below it, and a short looped cotton cord.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"xingu river","display_name":"Xingu yellow-banded giant","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-363_mus2026-363-grinnell-7436-xingu.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-363_mus2026-363-grinnell-7436-xingu_thumb.jpg","credit":"©2003 Roger Vetter, courtesy of the Grinnell College Musical Instrument Collection, item 7436","license":"Rights reserved (©2003 Roger Vetter); non-commercial research proposal. Collection permits reproduction with credit after email notification listing images and publication; notification has not been sent. https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/page/about","source_page":"https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/7436","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Xingu River bullroarer with a slotted cord end."},"slug":"mus2026-363-xingu-river-people-specific-community-unrecorded"}