{"id":"NIMUENDAJU1928-001","label":"Tenetehara handled blade, Pindaré–Grajaú","people_or_site":"Tenetehara (Guajajara) of Maranhão","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Maranhão / lower Pindaré and Grajaú rivers","macroregion":"South America / Brazil","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"Carved wooden rod, 35.5 cm, with a twisted cotton cord and an oblong-oval carved board, 18.5 × 3.3 cm. GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig SAm 14158.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"grassi_sam_14158_tenetehara","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1574150","page_or_plate":"SAm 14158 / SKD object 1574150","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative point in the lower Pindaré–Grajaú river region, Maranhão; the catalogue names the rivers, not a village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Stick, cord and blade survive together: a carved rod for the hand, a twisted cotton cord, and a small oval board carved from wood. The set comes from the lower Pindaré and Grajaú rivers in Maranhão, from the Tenetehara who live there and are known as the Guajajara. Their Tembé kinsfolk, speaking the same Tupí-Guaraní language, moved on westward into Pará.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","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":"GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, SAm 14158, 'Schwirrholz' (Curt Nimuendajú, before 1928)","url":"https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1574150"}],"source_citations":"GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, SAm 14158, 'Schwirrholz' (Curt Nimuendajú, before 1928)","source_display":"GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, SAm 14158, 'Schwirrholz' (Curt Nimuendajú, before 1928)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Carved wooden rod, 35.5 cm, with a twisted cotton cord and an oblong-oval carved board, 18.5 × 3.3 cm. GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig SAm 14158.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tenetehara maranh","display_name":"Tenetehara handled blade, Pindaré–Grajaú","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NIMUENDAJU1928-001_leipzig_sam14158.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NIMUENDAJU1928-001_leipzig_sam14158_thumb.jpg","alt":"A wooden rod handle tied by a cotton cord to a flat oval wooden blade.","credit":"GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, SAm 14158","source_page":"https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1574150","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Tenetehara bullroarer from the lower Pindaré and Grajaú, Maranhão: carved rod, cotton cord, oval blade. Leipzig SAm 14158.","last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"nimuendaju1928-001-tenetehara-guajajara-of-maranhao"}