{"id":"RIESTER1972-001","label":"Guaraŝug'wä ivirapähĩm̃'ne bullroarer, Santa Anita","people_or_site":"Guaraŝug'wä (exonym Pauserna), Santa Anita village","country_current":"Bolivia","historic_region":"Campo Grande / Suvivuhu, northern Velasco Province, Santa Cruz Department","macroregion":"South America / Amazonia","local_name":"ivirapähĩm̃'ne","source_term":"Schwirrholz, ivirapähĩm̃'ne","source_language":"German","object_description":"Cedar blade 19 by 5.5 cm, pierced at the blunt end and knotted to a single 135 cm cord of totaí palm fibre.","function_summary":"Made by the men; by Riester's 1964-1965 stay, swung by boys as a toy. Whirled in circles overhead on its cord, sounding a dull note audible at a distance as the blade spun on its axis.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"riester1972_guarasugwa_ivirapahimne","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Ariester-1972-pauserna/Riester_1972_Die_Pauserna-Guarasugwae.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 170-171, fig. 98; Karte III p. 14","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Santa Anita village position read from Riester's own Karte III (printed p. 14), a sketch map on a one-degree grid between the Paraguá and Itenes (Guaporé) rivers; village-level in intent but precise only to a few kilometres, and the settlement is absent from modern gazetteers.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When Jürgen Riester came to live with the Guaraŝug'wä in 1964, the whole people fit into a single settlement: seven houses called Santa Anita, on a low rise in the Campo Grande grassland between the Paraguá and the Guaporé. The ivirapähĩm̃'ne still sounded there — a cedar blade barely a hand-span long on well over a metre of totaí-palm cord, whirled in circles overhead until its dull note carried far across the pampa. Making one remained the men's work; swinging one had become the business of boys, who kept the instrument alive as a toy.","pull_quote":"Die Herstellung des „ivirapähĩm̃'ne\" obliegt den Männern. Das Schwirrholz wird heute als Spielzeug der Knaben verwendet.","pull_quote_translation":"Making the ivirapähĩm̃'ne falls to the men. Today the bullroarer is used as a toy by the boys.","pull_quote_cite":"Riester 1972:171","term_gloss":"ivirapähĩm̃'ne: the Guaraŝug'wä (Pauserna) name for the bullroarer, recorded by Riester at Santa Anita, 1964-65","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":"Jürgen Riester, Die Pauserna-Guaraŝug'wä: Monographie eines Tupí-Guaraní-Volkes in Ostbolivien (Collectanea Instituti Anthropos 3, 1972), pp. 1, 7, 14-15 (Karte III) and 170-171, fig. 98","url":"https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Ariester-1972-pauserna/Riester_1972_Die_Pauserna-Guarasugwae.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251209024315/https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Ariester-1972-pauserna/Riester_1972_Die_Pauserna-Guarasugwae.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Jürgen Riester, Die Pauserna-Guaraŝug'wä: Monographie eines Tupí-Guaraní-Volkes in Ostbolivien (Collectanea Instituti Anthropos 3, 1972), pp. 1, 7, 14-15 (Karte III) and 170-171, fig. 98","source_display":"Jürgen Riester, Die Pauserna-Guaraŝug'wä: Monographie eines Tupí-Guaraní-Volkes in Ostbolivien (Collectanea Instituti Anthropos 3, 1972), pp. 1, 7, 14-15 (Karte III) and 170-171, fig. 98","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Cedar blade 19 by 5.5 cm, pierced at the blunt end and knotted to a single 135 cm cord of totaí palm fibre.","function_display":"Made by the men; by Riester's 1964-1965 stay, swung by boys as a toy. Whirled in circles overhead on its cord, sounding a dull note audible at a distance as the blade spun on its axis.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"guara","display_name":"Guaraŝug'wä ivirapähĩm̃'ne bullroarer, Santa Anita","image":{"full":"assets/objects/RIESTER1972-001_fig98_ivirapahimne.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/RIESTER1972-001_fig98_ivirapahimne_thumb.jpg","alt":"Riester’s fig. 98 of the Guaraŝug’wä ivirapähĩm̃’ne: the broad blade face with cord trailing from its pierced end and a narrow edge view above.","credit":"Jürgen Riester, Die Pauserna-Guaraŝug'wä (1972), fig. 98","license":"In copyright — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Ariester-1972-pauserna/Riester_1972_Die_Pauserna-Guarasugwa.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Measured drawing of the Guaraŝug’wä ivirapähĩm̃’ne, Riester fig. 98."},"slug":"riester1972-001-guarasug-wa-exonym-pauserna-santa-anita-village"}