{"id":"STEWART1942-010","label":"Antarianunts Southern Paiute bullroarer","people_or_site":"Antarianunts Southern Paiute","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Henry Mountains, Garfield County, Utah","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"niayaranömpö","source_term":"Bull-roarer: whirrer of wood","source_language":"English","object_description":"A wooden whirrer and a mountain-sheep-horn form, both reported as recent.","function_summary":"Use not 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 R, 2793 R; els. 2794-2802 marked with the refusal symbol; el. 4087 - , p. 315); vocabulary p. 352; band p. 237; informant p. 239","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Henry Mountains, Garfield County, Utah — the country assigned to the band. Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Antarianunts held the country around the Henry Mountains in southern Utah — bare sandstone, and still, when Stewart wrote, one of the least accessible corners of the state. He knew of no other mention of the band anywhere in print. Rosie Timmican, born and reared there and a young woman when the first white men came through, gave him their word for the bull-roarer, niayaranömpö, and said her people had both a wooden one and one cut from mountain-sheep horn. Both, she said, were recent. What it was used for she did not say, and she would not talk much about doctoring either.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"niayaranömpö: the Antarianunts name for the bull-roarer, close to the Kaibab and San Juan Paiute naiyaratinömpö and carrying the same Numic instrumental ending, -nömpö.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"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), p. 291, elements 2792-2802; vocabulary p. 352; band and informant notes pp. 237, 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), p. 291, elements 2792-2802; vocabulary p. 352; band and informant notes pp. 237, 239","source_display":"Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), p. 291, elements 2792-2802; vocabulary p. 352; band and informant notes pp. 237, 239","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden whirrer and a mountain-sheep-horn form, both reported as recent.","function_display":"Use not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"antarianunts southern","display_name":"Antarianunts Southern Paiute bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/finna_vk4834_411.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/finna_vk4834_411_thumb.jpg","alt":"Mesa Verde Ruin 14 deer-bone bullroarer with terminal hole and incised lines.","credit":"Finnish Heritage Agency / National Museum of Finland (VK4834:411), via Finna","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://www.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.17F4ECF5450D702E586AA5B520CF263A","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Mesa Verde Ruin 14 deer-bone bullroarer with terminal hole and incised lines.","pool_id":"american-west-mesa-verde-bone","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"stewart1942-010-antarianunts-southern-paiute"}