{"id":"STEWART1941-004","label":"Kuyui-dokado wimo'to","people_or_site":"Kuyui-dokado ('cui-ui eaters') Northern Paiute, Pyramid Lake","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Pyramid Lake and the lower Truckee River, 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_high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Nixon, on the lower Truckee at Pyramid Lake, where both. Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Pyramid Lake the wimo'to was a wooden whirrer — no horn version — swung by children and swung to bring the wind. Two brothers described it separately and agreed in every detail: toy and wind instrument both, the two jobs still joined, as they were everywhere at the western end of Northern Paiute country.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Wimo'to: the Northern Paiute word for the bullroarer; the band name is from kuyui, the cui-ui sucker of Pyramid Lake.","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 to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kuyui dokado","display_name":"Kuyui-dokado wimo'to","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-082.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-082_thumb.jpg","alt":"Two Seri ironwood bullroarers with their hide cords, Penn Museum 62-33-53.","credit":"Penn Museum (acc. 62-33-53)","license":"Penn Museum — non-commercial / educational use","source_page":"https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/469052","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Two Seri ironwood bullroarers with their hide cords, Penn Museum 62-33-53.","pool_id":"american-west-seri-penn-pair","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"stewart1941-004-kuyui-dokado-cui-ui-eaters-northern-paiute-pyramid-lake"}