{"id":"STEWART1941-003","label":"Tasiget-tuviwarai wimo'to, toy and wind-maker","people_or_site":"Tasiget-tuviwarai ('between dwellers') Northern Paiute","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Winnemucca and Spanish Spring valleys and the Truckee River east of Reno, western Nevada","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"wimo'to","source_term":"bull-roarer (wimo'to)","source_language":"English","object_description":"A wooden whirrer; not described further.","function_summary":"Swung both as a children's toy and to make the wind blow.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"stewart1941_ced14_northern_paiute","source_type":"culture_element_distribution","source_url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar004-004.pdf","page_or_plate":"Stewart 1941, pp. 363, 401, 403","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Winnemucca Valley northeast of Reno, the core of the territory Stewart assigns the band; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Northeast of Reno, in Tasiget country, the wimo'to did two jobs at once: children swung it for the noise, and it was swung to bring the wind. Further east the two uses come apart, and bands that used the roarer on the weather kept it out of children's hands; here they were one thing, one instrument answering to both.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"wimo'to: the Northern Paiute word for the bullroarer; in Surprise Valley it was kwi'mo.","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Omer C. Stewart, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIV, Northern Paiute,' Anthropological Records 4:3 (1941), pp. 363, 401 and 403","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar004-004.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260814093943/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar004-004.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Omer C. Stewart, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIV, Northern Paiute,' Anthropological Records 4:3 (1941), pp. 363, 401 and 403","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIV, Northern Paiute,' Anthropological Records 4:3 (1941), pp. 363, 401 and 403","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden whirrer; not described further.","function_display":"Swung both as a children's toy and to make the wind blow.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tasiget tuviwarai","display_name":"Tasiget-tuviwarai wimo'to, toy and wind-maker","image":{"full":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/white1962_fig50_zia_haomomo.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/thumbs/white1962_fig50_zia_haomomo_thumb.jpg","alt":"Zia háomomo rig with blade, cord and handle, drawn by Leslie White.","credit":"Leslie A. White, The Pueblo of Sia, BAE Bulletin 184 (1962), fig. 50","license":"Public domain (United States government work)","source_page":"https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/15446","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Zia háomomo rig with blade, cord and handle, drawn by Leslie White.","pool_id":"american-west-zia-rig","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"stewart1941-003-tasiget-tuviwarai-between-dwellers-northern-paiute"}