{"id":"STEWART1941-009","label":"Tago-toka wind-making wimo'to of the Owyhee","people_or_site":"Tago-toka Northern Paiute, Owyhee River (now Duck Valley)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Owyhee River, southwestern Idaho and southeastern Oregon","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; toy use 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. 361, 364, 401, 403","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Owyhee River near Jordan Valley on the Idaho-Oregon line, the aboriginal territory Stewart assigns the band. Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the Owyhee, where Idaho, Oregon and Nevada nearly meet, the wimo'to was swung to bring wind and was not given to children — a weather instrument, kept out of play, matching what three other eastern bands said independently.","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"],"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. 361, 364, 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. 361, 364, 401 and 403","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIV, Northern Paiute,' Anthropological Records 4:3 (1941), pp. 361, 364, 401 and 403","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden whirrer; not described further.","function_display":"Swung to make the wind blow; toy use denied.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tago toka","display_name":"Tago-toka wind-making wimo'to of the Owyhee","image":{"full":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/nmnh_E360251.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/thumbs/nmnh_E360251_thumb.jpg","alt":"Pima painted-wood bullroarer with cord and handle, Smithsonian.","credit":"Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (E360251)","license":"No rights statement on record page (Smithsonian Terms of Use)","source_page":"https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8407053","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Pima painted-wood bullroarer with cord and handle, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.","pool_id":"american-west-pima-complete-rig","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"stewart1941-009-tago-toka-northern-paiute-owyhee-river-now-duck-valley"}