{"id":"SA-Z1953-018","label":"Koto wigo toy","people_or_site":"Koto","country_current":"Peru","historic_region":"Northeastern Peru","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"wígǫ́","source_term":"wígǫ́ (Zerries: \"wig-o\")","source_language":"Koto (Orejón; Western Tukanoan), northeastern Peru","object_description":"","function_summary":"Bullroarer known as children's toy","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"zerries1953","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Azerries-1953-bullroarer/Zerries_1953_TheBullroarerAmongSAmerIndians.pdf","page_or_plate":"Tessmann 1930:198-199; Zerries 1953:287 (distribution prose p. 302; numbered catalogue entry 18, p. 306)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Regional anchor; recorded as a toy survival, with no live ritual function.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Koto (Orejón), a Western Tukanoan people of northeastern Peru, the bullroarer was a children's toy called wígǫ́, the blade rigged to its cord and stick, Tessmann noted, like a fishing rod. Among their neighbours the Panobo, Lamisto, Tshamikuro and Aguano the instrument was likewise whirled only in play.","pull_quote":"Ein Schwirrholz = wígǫ́, bei dem das Holz angelartig an Schnur und Stock befestigt ist ... Es ist lediglich Spielzeug.","pull_quote_translation":"A bullroarer, wígǫ́, in which the wood is fastened to cord and stick in the manner of a fishing rod ... It is merely a toy.","pull_quote_cite":"Tessmann 1930:198-199 (Koto, rubric 47)","term_gloss":"wigo = Koto (Orejón, Western Tukanoan) name for the bullroarer, recorded by Tessmann 1930.","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":"Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus: Grundlegende Forschungen für eine systematische Kulturkunde (Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1930), pp. 198-199; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 287","url":"https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Azerries-1953-bullroarer/Zerries_1953_TheBullroarerAmongSAmerIndians.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260420134455/https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Azerries-1953-bullroarer/Zerries_1953_TheBullroarerAmongSAmerIndians.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus: Grundlegende Forschungen für eine systematische Kulturkunde (Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1930), pp. 198-199; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 287","source_display":"Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus: Grundlegende Forschungen für eine systematische Kulturkunde (Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1930), pp. 198-199; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 287","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Bullroarer known as children's toy","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"koto","display_name":"Koto wigo toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/tessmann1930_taf85_fig3_tschamikuro.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/tessmann1930_taf85_fig3_tschamikuro_thumb.jpg","alt":"Tessmann’s line drawing of a long tapered Tschamikuro bullroarer with a cord attached at its narrow end.","credit":"Günther Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930), Tafel 85, Fig. 3","license":"Public domain (US; published 1930)","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Tessmann’s drawing of the corded Tschamikuro bullroarer.","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--tessmann1930_taf85_fig3_tschamikuro"},"slug":"sa-z1953-018-koto"}