{"id":"NAAIN-021","label":"Sicangu Lakota Tateka yumunpi wind buzzer bullroarer","people_or_site":"Sicangu Lakota, Rosebud (South Dakota)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"South Dakota / Rosebud Sioux Reservation","macroregion":"North America / Plains","local_name":"Tateka yumunpi","source_term":"Tateka yumunpi; Wind Buzzer (Bull Roarer)","source_language":"Lakota / English","object_description":"A rectangular wooden plank joined by a leather thong to a wooden handle or wand; pierced for the thong, the plank may be beveled at the tip.","function_summary":"Sicangu Lakota boys' traditional game / wind buzzer; players spin it vigorously by the handle to make a buzzing noise and can compete for duration.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"sdsu2019_sicangu_tateka_yumunpi","source_type":"extension_traditional_games_resource","source_url":"https://extension.sdstate.edu/sites/default/files/2019-11/P-00137.pdf","page_or_plate":"PDF p. 17; SDSU Extension landing page","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Rosebud / Rosebud Sioux Reservation community anchor. The SDSU resource identifies Mike Marshall as Sicangu Lakota, says he was born on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, and gives a Sicangu Lakota games source context, but it does not give a specific play, collection, or teaching-event locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A Sicangu Lakota boys' game in which a rectangular wooden plank, tied by a leather thong to a wooden wand, is gripped by the handle and spun vigorously until it buzzes, with players competing to keep the sound going longest — an effort that strains and tightens the arm. The Lakota artist Mike Marshall, born on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, says cedar is the best wood for a toy meant to make sound, and that the tip of the plank can be beveled to cut the wind and pull a louder note from it. Most buzzers are left plain, though some are decorated with burned-in designs. The same Lakota name was set down more than a century earlier in Stewart Culin's survey of North American games, where a thin rectangular plank on a thong, collected at Pine Ridge by Louis L. Meeker, is recorded as a boy's plaything called tateka yuhmunpi.","pull_quote":"This game was traditionally played by boys. They held it by the handle and spun it around vigorously, thus creating a buzzing noise. Participants can compete to see who can keep it buzzing for the longest duration.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Red Eagle & Marshall, Dakota & Lakota Traditional Games Resource (SDSU Extension, 2019), \"Tateka yumunpi / Wind Buzzer (Bull Roarer),\" p. 17","term_gloss":"Lakota name glossed in the source as \"Wind Buzzer (Bull Roarer).\"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"etymology":"Sicangu Lakota, glossed in the SDSU Extension source as \"Wind Buzzer (Bull Roarer).\" The name joins tȟaté 'wind' with the stem yumni 'to whirl, turn round' — the same root as in tȟaté-iyumni, 'whirlwind' — and the plural -pi, so it reads roughly as 'they whirl the wind.' It names a boys' toy spun by a handle until it buzzes.","literal_gloss":"wind-whirler","semantic_cluster":"wind; buzz; toy_or_game","etymology_confidence":"medium","sources":[{"citation":"Jeremy Red Eagle & Mike Marshall, Dakota & Lakota Traditional Games Resource (SDSU Extension, 2019), “Tateka yumunpi / Wind Buzzer (Bull Roarer),” PDF p. 17","url":"https://extension.sdstate.edu/sites/default/files/2019-11/P-00137.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251113035413/https://extension.sdstate.edu/sites/default/files/2019-11/P-00137.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Jeremy Red Eagle & Mike Marshall, Dakota & Lakota Traditional Games Resource (SDSU Extension, 2019), “Tateka yumunpi / Wind Buzzer (Bull Roarer),” PDF p. 17","source_display":"Jeremy Red Eagle & Mike Marshall, Dakota & Lakota Traditional Games Resource (SDSU Extension, 2019), “Tateka yumunpi / Wind Buzzer (Bull Roarer),” PDF p. 17","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A rectangular wooden plank joined by a leather thong to a wooden handle or wand; pierced for the thong, the plank may be beveled at the tip.","function_display":"Sicangu Lakota boys' traditional game / wind buzzer; players spin it vigorously by the handle to make a buzzing noise and can compete for duration.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"sicangu lakota","display_name":"Sicangu Lakota Tateka yumunpi wind buzzer bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared_culin1907_fig1008.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared_culin1907_fig1008_thumb.jpg","alt":"Culin’s 1907 engraving of an Oglala tateka yuhmunpi from Pine Ridge: a long narrow stick, looping cord and small flat blade.","credit":"Stewart Culin, Games of the North American Indians (24th ARBAE, 1907), fig. 1008","license":"Public domain (published 1907)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/gamesofnorthamer00culirich","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Culin’s engraving of an Oglala tateka yuhmunpi from Pine Ridge."},"slug":"naain-021-sicangu-lakota-rosebud-south-dakota"}