{"id":"STEWART1942-006","label":"Mowataviwatsiu Ute wind-stopping bullroarer","people_or_site":"Mowataviwatsiu Ute (Uncompahgre)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Saguache / San Luis Valley, Colorado","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"munu'nunöpö","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 to stop wind.","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, 2801 +; 2797 toy -); vocabulary p. 352; band p. 237; informants p. 238","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Saguache, Colorado anchor — the home territory Stewart's informants named, from which the band roamed north and south (p. 237); informants were interviewed on the Uintah Reservation after removal.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Mowataviwatsiu ran the bull-roarer in reverse: while Moanunts and Utah Lake whirlers called the wind up, the munu'nunöpö of Saguache was swung to make it stop. These are the people history knows as the Uncompahgre — the name dates from the years when several Ute bands were united under Chief Ouray at Montrose — but their own home ground, Stewart was told, was near Saguache at the head of the San Luis Valley, from which they roamed north and south.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"munu'nunöpö: the Möwataviwatsiu term for the bull-roarer in Stewart's comparative vocabulary (shared with one Moache list); no literal gloss is given.","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: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Ute Möwataviwatsiu list; informant Wimövötö (Minnie Chester), ca. 83, interviewed at Randlett, Utah (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 Möwataviwatsiu list; informant Wimövötö (Minnie Chester), ca. 83, interviewed at Randlett, Utah (p. 238)","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Ute Möwataviwatsiu list; informant Wimövötö (Minnie Chester), ca. 83, interviewed at Randlett, Utah (p. 238)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Whirrer of wood swung on a string with a wooden handle.","function_display":"Whirled to stop wind.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mowataviwatsiu ute","display_name":"Mowataviwatsiu Ute wind-stopping bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MINE2026-077_cmh_iii_g_372_lac_seul.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MINE2026-077_cmh_iii_g_372_lac_seul_thumb.jpg","alt":"Anishinaabe bullroarer from Lac Seul, with a scalloped blade and handle.","credit":"Canadian Museum of History, III-G-372 a-b","license":"© Canadian Museum of History — non-commercial research/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Anishinaabe wooden blade with cord and handle, Lac Seul","pool_id":"anishinaabe-lac-seul"},"slug":"stewart1942-006-mowataviwatsiu-ute-uncompahgre"}