{"id":"SA-Z1953-026","label":"Guarayu toy","people_or_site":"Guarayu","country_current":"Bolivia","historic_region":"Eastern Bolivia","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrgerät / Schwirrholz / bullroarer","source_language":"German / English extraction","object_description":"","function_summary":"Bullroarer used as children's toy; Zerries suggests possible borrowing from isolated eastern Bolivia strata","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":"Nordenskiöld 1922:168 (via Zerries 1953:288)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Regional anchor; no live ritual function recorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Guarayu of eastern Bolivia the bullroarer was a children's toy, with no recorded ritual use. Every Guarayu boy had a toy bow, Erland Nordenskiöld noted, and the smaller boys had bullroarers too — as among the Chacobo and Yuracaré of northeastern Bolivia, who likewise whirled it only in play. In his diffusion argument Otto Zerries supposed the Guarayu, a Tupí people, had taken up the bullroarer from the scattered, linguistically isolated tribes of eastern Bolivia rather than carrying it from any older Tupí stratum.","pull_quote":"In Northeastern Bolivia the bull-roarer is used as a children's toy by the Chacobo (Nordenskiöld 1922, p. 110), Yuracaré (l.c. p. 68) and Guarayu (l.c. p. 168).","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Zerries 1953:288","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":"Erland Nordenskiöld, Indianer und Weisse in Nordostbolivien (Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1922), p. 168; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 288","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":"Erland Nordenskiöld, Indianer und Weisse in Nordostbolivien (Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1922), p. 168; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 288","source_display":"Erland Nordenskiöld, Indianer und Weisse in Nordostbolivien (Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1922), p. 168; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 288","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Bullroarer used as children's toy; Zerries suggests possible borrowing from isolated eastern Bolivia strata","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"guarayu","display_name":"Guarayu toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SA-Z1953-026_em_1913_15_0024.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SA-Z1953-026_em_1913_15_0024_thumb.jpg","alt":"Guarayu bullroarer from Bolivia: a pale flat wooden slat with a long cord tied at both ends.","credit":"Etnografiska museet, Stockholm (1913.15.0024)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1913.15.0024","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Guarayu bullroarer from Bolivia, collected by Erland Nordenskiöld."},"slug":"sa-z1953-026-guarayu"}