{"id":"SA-Z1953-020","label":"Panobo reo reo toy","people_or_site":"Panobo","country_current":"Peru","historic_region":"Northeastern Peru","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"rę̄òrę̄ò","source_term":"rę̄òrę̄ò (Zerries: \"reo reo\")","source_language":"Panobo (Panoan)","object_description":"Pointed, tapering wooden blade on a cord.","function_summary":"Bullroarer known as a children's toy; the same chapter explicitly denies its use as a child-frightening device.","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 1930:115 (primary); Zerries 1953:287, distribution list item 20 (survey)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Regional anchor for the named people; not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Panobo, a Panoan people of northeastern Peru, the bullroarer was a children's toy called rę̄òrę̄ò — a wooden blade tapering to a point, on a cord. For some of their neighbors the instrument did double duty: the Kampa whirled their \"mero mero\" not only as a plaything but to frighten naughty children, telling them the jaguar would come and carry them off. Not so the Panobo: among them, Günter Tessmann wrote, there was \"no child-frightener, neither bullroarer nor disguise.\" Here the blade was a plaything and nothing else.","pull_quote":"Schwirrholz = rę̄òrę̄ò, spitz auslaufende Holzplatte mit Schnur. Ein zweiter B. kannte dies Gerät nicht.","pull_quote_translation":"Bullroarer = rę̄òrę̄ò, a wooden blade running out to a point, with a cord. A second informant did not know this device.","pull_quote_cite":"Tessmann 1930:115 (Panobo, 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":"Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus: Grundlegende Forschungen für eine systematische Kulturkunde (Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1930), p. 115; 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), p. 115; 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), p. 115; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 287","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Pointed, tapering wooden blade on a cord.","function_display":"Bullroarer known as a children's toy; the same chapter explicitly denies its use as a child-frightening device.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"panobo","display_name":"Panobo reo reo toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-148_cavineno_1915_01_1453.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-148_cavineno_1915_01_1453_thumb.jpg","alt":"Cavineño toy bullroarer from the Río Beni collection: a dark oval blade with thick pale fibre cord looped and wrapped around its middle.","credit":"Swedish Museums of World Culture / Carlotta, object 1915.01.1453","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/19956","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Cavineño toy bullroarer from the Río Beni collection","pool_id":"auto-MUS2026-148_cavineno_1915_01_1453","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"sa-z1953-020-panobo"}