{"id":"NAGA-001","label":"Konyak Tamlu kampi rain bullroarer","people_or_site":"Konyak / Tamlu village","country_current":"India","historic_region":"Naga Hills / present Nagaland","macroregion":"South Asia / Northeast India","local_name":"kampi","source_term":"Kampi","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wood bullroarer with fibre cord attached to notch","function_summary":"Swung to induce rain.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"NAGA_R10584","source_type":"cambridge_naga_database","source_url":"https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/record/r10584.html","page_or_plate":"record R10584","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative point for the Tamlu village area, Longleng district, Nagaland (Getty TGN 7578766; 26.6740, 94.7445), consistent with NESAC 2010 Fig. 6; not the museums in Cambridge or Oxford, and not an exact collection findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Konyak of Tamlu village, in what is now Nagaland, a bull-roarer called kampi was whirled to bring rain. Henry Balfour, first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, collected this one in November 1922 on his tour of the Naga Hills; it is a length of wood 45 centimetres long, with the cord lashed to a notch cut in the end rather than passed through a drilled hole, as elsewhere. It was no display piece: this kampi had been swung in earnest.","pull_quote":"This one was certainly used and was not symbolic or decorative.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Cambridge Naga Database, catalogue record R10584 (Pitt Rivers Museum 1953.10.109)","term_gloss":"kampi: the Konyak name for the rain-inducing bull-roarer.","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"etymology":"kampi is the Konyak name for the bullroarer whirled to bring rain.","literal_gloss":"rain-inducing bullroarer","semantic_cluster":"rain; weather","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"University of Cambridge, 'The Nagas' database, record R10584 (Konyak, Tamlu); Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1953.10.109","url":"https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/record/r10584.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013023928/https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/record/r10584.html"}],"source_citations":"University of Cambridge, 'The Nagas' database, record R10584 (Konyak, Tamlu); Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1953.10.109","source_display":"University of Cambridge, 'The Nagas' database, record R10584 (Konyak, Tamlu); Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1953.10.109","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wood bullroarer with fibre cord attached to notch","function_display":"Swung to induce rain.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"konyak","display_name":"Konyak Tamlu kampi rain bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATCH3-001.jpeg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATCH3-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"Konyak Naga kampi bullroarer from Tamlu: a pale narrow wooden blade with a dark wrapped end.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1953.10.109); Cambridge Naga Exploratour","license":"In copyright — Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/objects/c668.html","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Konyak Naga kampi bull-roarer, Tamlu village. PRM 1953.10.109."},"slug":"naga-001-konyak-tamlu-village"}