{"id":"STEWART1942-008","label":"San Juan Southern Paiute wind-stopping bullroarer","people_or_site":"San Juan Southern Paiute (Kaibökadöt-tawip-nunts)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Navajo Mountain country, northern Arizona / southern Utah","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"naiyaratinömpö","source_term":"Bull-roarer: whirrer of wood","source_language":"English","object_description":"Whirrer of wood; the handled-string rig of the Ute bands was denied.","function_summary":"A toy; also whirled to stop wind, effective only for people born in summer.","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, 2797, 2801, 2802 +; 2795 handle -); vocabulary p. 352; band p. 237; informants p. 239","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Navajo Mountain anchor for the Kaibökadöt-tawip-nunts, the eastern of the two San Juan Paiute bands Stewart's informants named (p. 237); informants camped east of Gap Trading Post in the 'Badaway country.'","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the slickrock country around Navajo Mountain, a summer-born Paiute could whirl the naiyaratinömpö to still the wind; everyone else swung it for the noise. By Stewart's day the San Juan people were a small band living among Navajo who far outnumbered them — one of them said they were learning a lot about doctoring from their neighbors. Joe Francis, called Nömö'-maots, blind and about eighty, born in the Badaway country south of Lee's Ferry, talked it through at his camp east of Gap Trading Post.","pull_quote":"Used effectively only by people born in summer.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Stewart 1942, p. 291","term_gloss":"naiyaratinömpö: the San Juan Paiute term for the bull-roarer in Stewart's comparative vocabulary (shared with the Kaibab); 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, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Southern Paiute San Juan list; informants Joe Francis ('Nömö'-maots'), ca. 80, blind, and Dagaibitsi (Many Whisker's Daughter), ca. 70, camped east of Gap Trading Post, Arizona (p. 239)","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), Southern Paiute San Juan list; informants Joe Francis ('Nömö'-maots'), ca. 80, blind, and Dagaibitsi (Many Whisker's Daughter), ca. 70, camped east of Gap Trading Post, Arizona (p. 239)","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Southern Paiute San Juan list; informants Joe Francis ('Nömö'-maots'), ca. 80, blind, and Dagaibitsi (Many Whisker's Daughter), ca. 70, camped east of Gap Trading Post, Arizona (p. 239)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Whirrer of wood; the handled-string rig of the Ute bands was denied.","function_display":"A toy; also whirled to stop wind, effective only for people born in summer.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"san juan","display_name":"San Juan Southern Paiute wind-stopping bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/nmai_139475.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/nmai_139475_thumb.jpg","alt":"Comcaac (Seri) bullroarer from Isla Tiburón, collected by Edward H. Davis in 1924: a wooden blade with hide cord wound around much of its upper half.","credit":"National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI_139475)","license":"Usage conditions apply; NMAI metadata marked CC0","source_page":"https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_139475","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Comcaac (Seri) bullroarer from Isla Tiburón, NMAI 13/9475.","pool_id":"american-west-seri-isla-tiburon","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"stewart1942-008-san-juan-southern-paiute-kaibokadot-tawip-nunts"}