{"id":"SA-Z1953-027","label":"Chiquitano / Churapa bullroarers","people_or_site":"Chiquitano, including the Churapa attestation","country_current":"Bolivia","historic_region":"Santa Cruz region, eastern Bolivia","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"sukurush (Churapa) / upaspakiña (Chiquitano specimen)","source_term":"Schwirrgerät / Schwirrholz / bullroarer","source_language":"German / English extraction","object_description":"Churapa toy attestation plus two Chiquitano museum boards: a 19 cm softwood upaspakiña with braided fibre cord and a 51.3 cm narrow wooden slat with cord.","function_summary":"The Churapa sukurush was formerly a children's toy; use of the broader Chiquitano museum specimens is not recorded.","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 1922:28; via Zerries 1953:288 (table no. 27, p. 302)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Regional anchor; recorded only as a former toy.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Churapa remembered the sukurush as a children's toy already slipping out of use. Two Chiquitano objects give that fading sound a physical form: one is a broad softwood blade with a braided fibre cord and the name upaspakiña; the other is a narrow slat more than half a metre long. Together they preserve both a local memory of play and the striking variety of Chiquitano roarers.","pull_quote":"As a toy it is nowadays out of use among the Churapa; it was called suku-rush.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Zerries 1953, \"The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,\" Revista do Museu Paulista N.S. VII:288","term_gloss":"sukurush: Churapa name for the bullroarer when used as a toy (Nordenskiöld 1922:28; given as \"suku-rush\" in Zerries 1953:288).","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. 28; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), pp. 288 and 302; Museum der Kulturen Basel IVc 25229 and IVc 13135","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. 28; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), pp. 288 and 302; Museum der Kulturen Basel IVc 25229 and IVc 13135","source_display":"Erland Nordenskiöld, Indianer und Weisse in Nordostbolivien (Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1922), p. 28; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), pp. 288 and 302; Museum der Kulturen Basel IVc 25229 and IVc 13135","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Churapa toy attestation plus two Chiquitano museum boards: a 19 cm softwood upaspakiña with braided fibre cord and a 51.3 cm narrow wooden slat with cord.","function_display":"The Churapa sukurush was formerly a children's toy; use of the broader Chiquitano museum specimens is not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"chiquitano","display_name":"Chiquitano / Churapa bullroarers","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SA-Z1953-027_mkb_ivc_25229.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SA-Z1953-027_mkb_ivc_25229_thumb.jpg","credit":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, IVc 25229","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/?queries=query%3Dsearch%3DInventory%2520number%3DIVc%252025229%26showtype%3Drecord","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A Chiquitano upaspakiña with its braided fibre cord tied through the narrowed end, MKB IVc 25229."},"slug":"sa-z1953-027-chiquitano-including-the-churapa-attestation"}