{"id":"OKADA2010-001","label":"Matsés (Mayoruna) fish-shaped zunidor toy","people_or_site":"Matsés (Mayoruna)","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Vale do Javari, upper Jaquirana and Javari rivers, Amazonas","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"","source_term":"zunidor","source_language":"Portuguese","object_description":"A fish-shaped piece of wood tied to a cord at one end.","function_summary":"A children's toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"okada_barreto_c2010","source_type":"secondary_literature","source_url":"https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/37c68e4f/files/uploaded/atividades_ind%C3%ADgenas_na_EF.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 219","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Matsés villages on the Brazilian side of the Jaquirana (Lobo, Ituxi, Lameirão and others, per the source p. 201); regional anchor","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Matsés, the people Brazilians call Mayoruna, who live along the Jaquirana and Javari rivers on the border with Peru, children make the zunidor together: a piece of wood carved in the shape of a fish, tied by one end to a cord. Whirled fast, the fish turns on the air and sings.","pull_quote":"basta que as crianças girem o cordão rapidamente e o atrito do ar provocará a rotação da madeira, que por sua vez produzirá um som","pull_quote_translation":"the children need only whirl the cord fast, and the friction of the air turns the wood, which in turn makes a sound","pull_quote_cite":"Okada & Barreto c. 2010, p. 219","term_gloss":"zunidor: Portuguese, 'hummer', the general Brazilian word for a bullroarer; the source gives no Matsés name.","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,"sources":[{"citation":"Elisabete Candido Rodrigues Okada and Selva Maria Guimarães Barreto, 'Vivenciando os jogos e brincadeiras indígenas na educação infantil' (São Carlos: UFSCar, c. 2010), p. 219","url":"https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/37c68e4f/files/uploaded/atividades_ind%C3%ADgenas_na_EF.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Elisabete Candido Rodrigues Okada and Selva Maria Guimarães Barreto, 'Vivenciando os jogos e brincadeiras indígenas na educação infantil' (São Carlos: UFSCar, c. 2010), p. 219","source_display":"Elisabete Candido Rodrigues Okada and Selva Maria Guimarães Barreto, 'Vivenciando os jogos e brincadeiras indígenas na educação infantil' (São Carlos: UFSCar, c. 2010), p. 219","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A fish-shaped piece of wood tied to a cord at one end.","function_display":"A children's toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mats","display_name":"Matsés (Mayoruna) fish-shaped zunidor toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SA-Z1953-037_smvk_1927-27-0443_vinare.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_10_03/SA-Z1953-037_also-1_thumb.jpg","alt":"Río Sambú Chocó bullroarer: a pale wooden blade with a narrow neck and broad rounded end beside its loosely coiled cord.","credit":"Statens museer för världskultur, Etnografiska museet Göteborg, obj. 1927.27.0443","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Río Sambú Chocó bull-roarer with its cord","pool_id":"auto-SA-Z1953-037_smvk_1927-27-0443_vinare","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-23"},"slug":"okada2010-001-matses-mayoruna"}