{"id":"POLY2026-012","label":"Anaa vivi, the dragonfly whirligig","people_or_site":"Tuamotuans of Anaa","country_current":"French Polynesia (France)","historic_region":"Anaa, Tuamotu Archipelago","macroregion":"Oceania / Polynesia","local_name":"vivi","source_term":"whirligig, bull-roarer","source_language":"English / Tuamotuan","object_description":"A bent coconut rib tied to a string fastened to the end of a stick.","function_summary":"A child's amusement, swung to buzz.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"stimson_marshall1964_tuamotuan","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsome00stim","page_or_plate":"p. 611, s.v. VIVI (iii)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Atoll anchor, Anaa; the dictionary tags the bull-roarer sense to the Anaa dialect.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On Anaa, an atoll in the Tuamotus, children bent a coconut rib into a bow, tied it to a string and swung it from the end of a stick. The toy was called vivi, which is also the word for the dragonfly. Vivi is a verb as well: to buzz, whirr or hum, the way a dragonfly does, or a spinning top. In the Tuamotus the bullroarer, the insect and the sound shared one word.","pull_quote":"A whirligig, bull-roarer; the use of the whirligig as a child's amusement; this is made with a bent coconut-rib tied to a string attached to the end of a stick.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"J. F. Stimson and D. S. Marshall, A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects (1964), p. 611, s.v. vivi.","term_gloss":"vivi (Tuamotuan, Anaa): \"a dragonfly\"; \"a whirligig, bull-roarer\"; as a verb, \"to make a buzzing, whirring, humming sound, as a dragonfly, top, whirligig\".","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":"J. Frank Stimson and Donald Stanley Marshall, A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language (The Hague: Nijhoff, for the Peabody Museum of Salem, 1964), p. 611, s.v. VIVI (iii)","url":"https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsome00stim"}],"source_citations":"J. Frank Stimson and Donald Stanley Marshall, A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language (The Hague: Nijhoff, for the Peabody Museum of Salem, 1964), p. 611, s.v. VIVI (iii)","source_display":"J. Frank Stimson and Donald Stanley Marshall, A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language (The Hague: Nijhoff, for the Peabody Museum of Salem, 1964), p. 611, s.v. VIVI (iii)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bent coconut rib tied to a string fastened to the end of a stick.","function_display":"A child's amusement, swung to buzz.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tuamotuans anaa","display_name":"Anaa vivi, the dragonfly whirligig","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/buck1927_aitutaki_fig281_patangitangi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/buck1927_aitutaki_fig281_patangitangi_thumb.jpg","alt":"Buck’s construction diagram of the Aitutaki coconut-leaflet patangitangi: a curved leaflet loop above a flat strip, an enlarged tied attachment and the assembled instrument on its cord, labelled A–D.","credit":"Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck), The Material Culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki) (1927), fig. 281","license":"Public domain","source_page":"http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucMate.html","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A coconut-leaflet roarer of the same family, from Aitutaki in the Cook Islands.","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--buck1927_aitutaki_fig281_patangitangi"},"slug":"poly2026-012-tuamotuans-of-anaa"}