{"id":"STEWART1942-004","label":"Pahvant Ute toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Pahvant Ute","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Lower Sevier River and Sevier Lake desert / Kanosh, Utah","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"muyaratinumpö","source_term":"Bull-roarer: whirrer of wood","source_language":"English","object_description":"Whirrer of wood swung on a string with a wooden handle.","function_summary":"Whirled as a toy; no weather use recorded.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"stewart1942_ute_southern_paiute","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/83548","page_or_plate":"printed p. 291 (els. 2792, 2795, 2797 +; weather els. -); vocabulary p. 352; band pp. 236-237; informants p. 238","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Kanosh, Utah — informant John Kanosh was born there and lived there nearly all his life; the band's range took in Sevier Lake, the lower Sevier River, and the desert mountains west (Stewart pp. 236-237).","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"John Kanosh — grandson of the famous Chief Kanosh, and at sixty-five a practicing shaman himself — remembered the bull-roarer of the Sevier desert as a plaything: a wooden blade whirled on a handled string, the muyaratinumpö. His Pahvant people ranged the salt lake, the lower Sevier River, and the desert mountains beyond, country not much kinder than the Goshute desert to the north; in his account the whirring blade carried no weather power at all.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"muyaratinumpö: the Pahvant term for the bull-roarer in Stewart's comparative vocabulary; no literal gloss is given.","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: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Ute Pahvant list; informant John Kanosh, ca. 65, born at Kanosh, Utah, grandson of Chief Kanosh, himself a shaman (p. 238)","url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/83548","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013023604/https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/83548"}],"source_citations":"Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Ute Pahvant list; informant John Kanosh, ca. 65, born at Kanosh, Utah, grandson of Chief Kanosh, himself a shaman (p. 238)","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Ute Pahvant list; informant John Kanosh, ca. 65, born at Kanosh, Utah, grandson of Chief Kanosh, himself a shaman (p. 238)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Whirrer of wood swung on a string with a wooden handle.","function_display":"Whirled as a toy; no weather use recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pahvant ute","display_name":"Pahvant Ute toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/VANSTONE1961-001_fmnh60974_fig37f.png","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/VANSTONE1961-001_fmnh60974_fig37f_thumb.png","alt":"Northern Ute bullroarer 60974, collected by George A. Dorsey in 1900: a flat blade with a long buckskin line bent into a large angular loop above it.","credit":"Field Museum of Natural History (60974; negative 113080), via Biodiversity Heritage Library","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 3.0","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/ethnographiccoll28vans","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Northern Ute bullroarer with its buckskin line.","pool_id":"auto-review_2026_07_15--VANSTONE1961-001_fmnh60974_fig37f"},"slug":"stewart1942-004-pahvant-ute"}