{"id":"STEWART1941-007","label":"Pakwi-dokado wimo'to, a children's toy","people_or_site":"Pakwi-dokado ('chub eaters') Northern Paiute","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Southern shores of Walker Lake, Soda Spring Valley and Hawthorne, 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":"A children's toy; the wind-making use is explicitly denied.","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. 364, 401, 403; Steward 1941, p. 250","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"South shore of Walker Lake between Soda Spring Valley and Hawthorne, the territory Stewart assigns the band; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the south shore of Walker Lake the roarer stopped being a weather instrument. The Pakwi-dokado had the wimo'to and children played with it — and, alone among the Northern Paiute bands, they denied that it was swung to bring the wind. Their denial falls exactly on the line Julian Steward drew across the Great Basin: toy to the south, weather to the north. The boundary is not an accident of silence; it is a flat denial standing where every neighbour affirmed.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Wimo'to: Stewart's survey-wide Northern Paiute element heading for the 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":"Omer C. Stewart, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIV, Northern Paiute,' Anthropological Records 4:3 (1941), pp. 364, 401 and 403; Julian H. Steward, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIII, Nevada Shoshoni,' Anthropological Records 4:2 (1941), p. 250","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. 364, 401 and 403; Julian H. Steward, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIII, Nevada Shoshoni,' Anthropological Records 4:2 (1941), p. 250","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIV, Northern Paiute,' Anthropological Records 4:3 (1941), pp. 364, 401 and 403; Julian H. Steward, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIII, Nevada Shoshoni,' Anthropological Records 4:2 (1941), p. 250","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden whirrer; not described further.","function_display":"A children's toy; the wind-making use is explicitly denied.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pakwi dokado","display_name":"Pakwi-dokado wimo'to, a children's toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-191_qb_135654_xilatzen.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-191_qb_135654_xilatzen_thumb.jpg","alt":"San José Xilatzén bullroarer from the Huasteca: a pale flat blade with a rounded paddle-like end and an intact looped henequen-fibre suspension rig.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1938.164.352 (coll. Guy Stresser-Péan, entered 1938)","license":"N/A","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/ccProxy.ashx?action=get&command=search&query=/Record/ccObjectID=135654","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"San José Xilatzen bullroarer with intact henequen-fibre suspension rig, Musée du quai Branly.","pool_id":"american-mexico-xilatzen-rig","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"stewart1941-007-pakwi-dokado-chub-eaters-northern-paiute"}