{"id":"SA-Z1953-019","label":"Aguano, Lamisto and Tschamikuro toy bullroarers","people_or_site":"Aguano; Lamisto; Tschamikuro","country_current":"Peru","historic_region":"Northeastern Peru","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"bōribṓri (Lamisto)","source_term":"bōribṓri (Zerries: \"bori bori\")","source_language":"Lamisto (Lamista Quechua), northeastern Peru","object_description":"Lamisto blade cut from a cane stalk; the Tschamikuro specimen an elongated leaf-shaped blade tapering to a corded point.","function_summary":"Bullroarer recorded as a children's toy among the Lamisto and Tschamikuro and as a former toy among the Aguano.","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":"Zerries 1953:287, 296; Tessmann 1930:228, 262, 404 and Tafel 85 fig. 3 caption p. 491","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Regional anchor covering more than one group.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Tschamikuro showed Tessmann their bullroarer — the slender leaf-shaped blade he drew for his plates — but when he asked its name, no one could remember it. Among the neighbouring Lamisto the toy was still current and still named, bōribṓri, its blade cut from a cane stalk, while an Aguano man could say only that such a toy had once existed; he himself had never seen one. Three small testimonies from the Huallaga country to the same instrument fading from memory.","pull_quote":"... und ein Schwirrholz, wie Taf. 85, Fig. 3 zeigt. Der Name war leider vergessen.","pull_quote_translation":"... and a bullroarer, as Plate 85, Fig. 3 shows. The name, sadly, was forgotten.","pull_quote_cite":"Tessmann 1930:404 (Tschamikuro, rubric 47)","term_gloss":"","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":"Otto Zerries, “The Bull-roarer among South American Indians” (1953), pp. 287, 296; Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930), pp. 228, 262, 404 and Tafel 85, fig. 3","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":"Otto Zerries, “The Bull-roarer among South American Indians” (1953), pp. 287, 296; Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930), pp. 228, 262, 404 and Tafel 85, fig. 3","source_display":"Otto Zerries, “The Bull-roarer among South American Indians” (1953), pp. 287, 296; Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930), pp. 228, 262, 404 and Tafel 85, fig. 3","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Lamisto blade cut from a cane stalk; the Tschamikuro specimen an elongated leaf-shaped blade tapering to a corded point.","function_display":"Bullroarer recorded as a children's toy among the Lamisto and Tschamikuro and as a former toy among the Aguano.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"aguano","display_name":"Aguano, Lamisto and Tschamikuro toy bullroarers","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":false,"caption":"Tessmann’s drawing of the corded Tschamikuro bullroarer."},"slug":"sa-z1953-019-aguano-lamisto-tschamikuro"}