{"id":"STEWART1941-005","label":"Kuipa-dokado wimo'to of the Humboldt Sink","people_or_site":"Kuipa-dokado ('ground-squirrel eaters') Northern Paiute","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Lower Humboldt River and Humboldt Sink, north-central 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 to make the wind blow; also reported as a toy.","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, 438","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Humboldt Sink, the centre of the territory Stewart assigns the band; the Lovelock colony where he found them lies just northeast. Not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The ground-squirrel eaters of the Humboldt Sink swung a wooden roarer to bring the wind — the eastern pattern, in which the instrument worked on the weather first. On whether children here were allowed one, the testimony splits both ways.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Wimo'to: the Northern Paiute word for the bullroarer.","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, 403 and 438","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, 403 and 438","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIV, Northern Paiute,' Anthropological Records 4:3 (1941), pp. 363, 401, 403 and 438","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden whirrer; not described further.","function_display":"Swung to make the wind blow; also reported as a toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kuipa dokado","display_name":"Kuipa-dokado wimo'to of the Humboldt Sink","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/rbcm_16921_nuuchahnulth_bullroarer.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/rbcm_16921_nuuchahnulth_bullroarer_thumb.jpg","alt":"Nuu-chah-nulth bullroarer: a long split-tipped blade with cord and tapered handle.","credit":"Royal BC Museum, RBCM 16921; photo via Grant Keddie, 'Bullroarers in the Indigenous Collections of the Royal B.C. Museum' (2023)","license":"Rights not stated (Royal BC Museum ToU-only regime); rehosted low-res from the museum curator's research publication","source_page":"https://grantkeddie.com/2023/02/bullroarers-in-the-indigenous-collections-of-the-royal-b-c-museum/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Nuu-chah-nulth split-tipped bullroarer with cord and handle, RBCM 16921.","pool_id":"american-west-nuuchahnulth-split-tip","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"stewart1941-005-kuipa-dokado-ground-squirrel-eaters-northern-paiute"}