{"id":"STEWART1942-007","label":"Shivwits Southern Paiute bullroarer","people_or_site":"Shivwits Southern Paiute","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Shivwits Plateau, Arizona Strip, northwestern Arizona","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"nanemotö","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":"A toy; also swung to make the wind blow.","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, 2799 +; 2800/2801/2802 -); vocabulary p. 352; band p. 237; informants p. 239 | Lowie 1924, p. 257 and fig. 36","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Shivwits Plateau centroid, the band's former homeland in northwestern Arizona (Stewart p. 237). Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the Shivwits Plateau, the dry tableland reaching to the Grand Canyon's north rim, the nanemotö was a boy's noisemaker that could also work: whirled on its handled string, the wooden blade made the wind blow. Lowie learned that the mythical Wolf had instituted it as a children's toy, and a father would make one for his children to play with. By Omer Stewart's time the Shivwits had left the plateau for a small reservation on the Santa Clara River near Saint George, where Frank Mustache, about seventy, was among the elders who described it.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"nanemotö: the Shivwits term for the bull-roarer in Stewart's comparative vocabulary — unlike the naiyaratinömpö family of terms among neighboring bands; no literal gloss is given.","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: XVIII, Ute–Southern Paiute, University of California Anthropological Records 6(4) (Berkeley, 1942), pp. 237, 239, 291, 352","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar006-005.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240604123606/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar006-005.pdf"},{"citation":"Robert H. Lowie, 'Notes on Shoshonean Ethnography', Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 20(3) (1924), p. 257, fig. 36","url":"https://archive.org/details/notesonshoshonea0020lowi/page/257/mode/1up"}],"source_citations":"Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute–Southern Paiute, University of California Anthropological Records 6(4) (Berkeley, 1942), pp. 237, 239, 291, 352; Robert H. Lowie, 'Notes on Shoshonean Ethnography', Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 20(3) (1924), p. 257, fig. 36","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute–Southern Paiute, University of California Anthropological Records 6(4) (Berkeley, 1942), pp. 237, 239, 291, 352; Robert H. Lowie, 'Notes on Shoshonean Ethnography', Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 20(3) (1924), p. 257, fig. 36","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Whirrer of wood swung on a string with a wooden handle.","function_display":"A toy; also swung to make the wind blow.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"shivwits southern","display_name":"Shivwits Southern Paiute bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/STEWART1942-007_lowie1924_fig36.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/STEWART1942-007_lowie1924_fig36_thumb.jpg","alt":"Lowie’s 1924 drawing of the Shivwits Southern Paiute bullroarer model, with a long flat serrated blade and cord looped below.","credit":"Lowie 1924, fig. 36 (AMNH 50.1-8637)","license":"Public domain (Lowie, Notes on Shoshonean Ethnography, 1924)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/notesonshoshonea0020lowi","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Drawing of the Shivwits model — serrated blade and long cord — published by Lowie in 1924."},"slug":"stewart1942-007-shivwits-southern-paiute"}