{"id":"SANCHEZ1950-001","label":"Río de Oro rumbadera","people_or_site":"Children of Río de Oro","country_current":"Colombia","historic_region":"Río de Oro, then in the department of Magdalena (now Cesar), northern Colombia","macroregion":"South America / Andes","local_name":"rumbadera","source_term":"rumbadera; bramadera","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"A children's bullroarer called rumbadera, glossed bramadera; construction not described.","function_summary":"A children's toy; the word was common in children's speech.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"sanchez1950_rio_de_oro_rumbadera","source_type":"academic_language_description","source_url":"https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/thesaurus/pdf/06/TH_06_002_034_0.pdf","page_or_plate":"Thesaurus 6(2) (1950), p. 247","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Río de Oro town, Cesar, Colombia, the locality whose vocabulary Sánchez Arévalo recorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Río de Oro, a town in the hills of northern Colombia, children called the bullroarer the rumbadera. When Francisco Sánchez Arévalo gathered the town's vocabulary for the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in 1950, he glossed it with the Spanish word bramadera: a thin board tied to a cord and whirled through the air until it roars like the wind. He added that the name was common in children's speech, because it was a toy. Next to it in his list stands the runcha, a spinning top made from half a wooden spool, another of the town's homemade playthings.","pull_quote":"RUMBADERA. Bramadera. Común en el habla infantil, por ser un juguete.","pull_quote_translation":"Rumbadera: bullroarer. Common in children's speech, because it is a toy.","pull_quote_cite":"Francisco Sánchez Arévalo, Thesaurus 6(2) (1950), p. 247","term_gloss":"rumbadera: Río de Oro name for the bullroarer; bramadera: the Spanish dictionary word for the toy bullroarer.","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":"Francisco Sánchez Arévalo, \"Notas sobre el lenguaje de Río de Oro,\" Thesaurus: Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo 6(2) (1950): 214–252, at p. 247","url":"https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/thesaurus/pdf/06/TH_06_002_034_0.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Francisco Sánchez Arévalo, \"Notas sobre el lenguaje de Río de Oro,\" Thesaurus: Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo 6(2) (1950): 214–252, at p. 247","source_display":"Francisco Sánchez Arévalo, \"Notas sobre el lenguaje de Río de Oro,\" Thesaurus: Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo 6(2) (1950): 214–252, at p. 247","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A children's bullroarer called rumbadera, glossed bramadera; construction not described.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"children oro","display_name":"Río de Oro rumbadera","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_review_2026_11_03/samer001_vkm_1935_14_0066.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_review_2026_11_03/thumbs/samer001_vkm_1935_14_0066.jpg","alt":"A flat wooden blade painted in black and reddish bands with a zigzag band, narrowing to a knobbed handle end at the left.","credit":"Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg (1935.14.0066)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/26183","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A second Wounaan sígûrwáuma from Isla de Munguidó","pool_id":"auto-hunt_review_2026_11_03--samer001_vkm_1935_14_0066","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-11-13"},"slug":"sanchez1950-001-children-of-rio-de-oro"}