{"id":"SOUZA2014-001","label":"Tadarimana's clan voices","people_or_site":"Bororo (Boe), Aldeia Central de Tadarimana","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Terra Indígena Tadarimana, Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso","macroregion":"South America / Brazil","local_name":"aije","source_term":"zunidor","source_language":"Portuguese","object_description":"Wooden aije blades made by Tugarege men; each clan has its own shape and sound.","function_summary":"Whirled by Ecerae men at funerals as the Aije-doge Aroe, the spirits of the earth; women and uninitiated boys are confined indoors, forbidden to see them, while initiated boys take part.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"souza2014_bakaru_tadarimana","source_type":"academic_thesis","source_url":"https://repositorio.ufmg.br/bitstreams/ea334b74-c473-4dee-ba29-8c81a20b364e/download","page_or_plate":"Souza pp. 41, 108–109, 120, 158–159; Viertler pp. 98–99","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Terra Indígena Tadarimana centroid, Rondonópolis (Nominatim); Aldeia Central lies within the TI. Not Córrego Grande or Kejara.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The night the aije passed through Tadarimana, an old Paiwoe woman lay curled on her bed, sweating with fear; women and uninitiated boys had to stay shut indoors. Her granddaughter, listening, decided the Paiwoe clan's roarer had the most beautiful voice, for every clan's aije has its own shape and its own sound. Tugarege men carve the blades and Ecerae men whirl them as the spirits of the earth. The aije is also a creature of rivers, lakes and mud, called here the minhocão, the great worm. A Paiwoe man named Rubugu found it, and two Aroroe chiefs, Baitogogo and Mano Kurireu, took it from him; pieces of that story are told at the funeral itself. In the funeral songs it is never named outright, only called capybara or monkey.","pull_quote":"o som do barulho de Aije de Paiwoe era mais bonito","pull_quote_translation":"the sound of the Paiwoe's Aije was the most beautiful","pull_quote_cite":"Leila Aparecida de Souza, Bakaru na comunidade indígena Bororo da Aldeia Central de Tadarimana (UFMG, 2014), p. 108","term_gloss":"aije: the Bororo bullroarer and the water-being it embodies. minhocão: Portuguese, a giant earthworm or serpent of river lore. Tugarege and Ecerae: the two Bororo moieties. Paiwoe, Aroroe, Kie: Bororo clans.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","snake","initiation","death_rebirth","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Leila Aparecida de Souza, Bakaru na comunidade indígena Bororo da Aldeia Central de Tadarimana, em Rondonópolis – Mato Grosso: conceitos e manifestações (PhD thesis, UFMG, 2014), pp. 41, 108–109, 120","url":"https://repositorio.ufmg.br/bitstreams/ea334b74-c473-4dee-ba29-8c81a20b364e/download"},{"citation":"Renate Brigitte Viertler, A refeição das almas: uma interpretação etnológica do funeral dos índios Bororo (São Paulo: Hucitec/Edusp, 1991), pp. 98–99","url":"https://acervo.socioambiental.org/sites/default/files/documents/bol00003.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Leila Aparecida de Souza, Bakaru na comunidade indígena Bororo da Aldeia Central de Tadarimana, em Rondonópolis – Mato Grosso: conceitos e manifestações (PhD thesis, UFMG, 2014), pp. 41, 108–109, 120; Renate Brigitte Viertler, A refeição das almas: uma interpretação etnológica do funeral dos índios Bororo (São Paulo: Hucitec/Edusp, 1991), pp. 98–99","source_display":"Leila Aparecida de Souza, Bakaru na comunidade indígena Bororo da Aldeia Central de Tadarimana, em Rondonópolis – Mato Grosso: conceitos e manifestações (PhD thesis, UFMG, 2014), pp. 41, 108–109, 120; Renate Brigitte Viertler, A refeição das almas: uma interpretação etnológica do funeral dos índios Bororo (São Paulo: Hucitec/Edusp, 1991), pp. 98–99","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden aije blades made by Tugarege men; each clan has its own shape and sound.","function_display":"Whirled by Ecerae men at funerals as the Aije-doge Aroe, the spirits of the earth; women and uninitiated boys are confined indoors, forbidden to see them, while initiated boys take part.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bororo","display_name":"Tadarimana's clan voices","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PEREZDEARCE2025-002_fig1915_tiwanaku_reconstruction.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PEREZDEARCE2025-002_fig1915_tiwanaku_reconstruction_thumb.jpg","alt":"Reconstruction drawing of the oval Tiwanaku stone, based on Carlos Ostermann’s description, with paired holes near the upper edge and dashed lines across its face.","credit":"José Pérez de Arce A., Instrumentos Sonoros Sudamericanos, Parte XXXVII (Chimuchina Récords, Valparaíso, 2025), fig. 1915, p. 1821, drawing based on Carlos Ostermann's description","license":"Author-hosted chapter states \"Se autoriza el uso del contenido citando la fuente\" (use authorized citing the source); rehosted with attribution","source_page":"https://www.joseperezdearcea.cl/_files/ugd/163345_219bcd774fa1489bbaacbb3e4adfb3a4.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Reconstruction drawing of the Tiwanaku stone","pool_id":"auto-PEREZDEARCE2025-002_fig1915_tiwanaku_reconstruction","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"souza2014-001-bororo-boe-aldeia-central-de-tadarimana"}