{"id":"TUNICABILOXI2018-001","label":"Taheriyowini, the whirling bellower","people_or_site":"Tunica (Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Louisiana, Avoyelles Parish (Tunica-Biloxi Tribe, Marksville)","macroregion":"North America / Southeast","local_name":"taheriyowini","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"Tunica; English","object_description":"A bullroarer, named in Tunica for its whirling and bellowing.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"tunicabiloxi2018_dictionary","source_type":"language_dictionary","source_url":"https://www.webonary.org/tunica/files/DraftDictionary20180727LargePrint.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 64; English index p. 94","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Marksville, Louisiana, seat of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe and its language program; a modern community anchor, not a place of use.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Tunica calls the bullroarer taheriyowini, the 'whirling bellower': ta-, which turns a verb into the one who does it, heri, to bellow, growl or howl, and yowini, whirling. The word belongs to a family of storms. Yowi means to blow round and round, as a cyclone does, and from it Tunica names the tornado, huriyowini, 'whirling wind', the dust devil, 'whirling dust', and the waterspout, 'whirling water'. At Marksville, the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana is bringing the language back into speech.","pull_quote":"taheriyowini … bullroarer lit. whirling bellower","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Yanatame Nisa Luhchi Yoroni (draft dictionary, 2018), p. 64.","term_gloss":"taheriyowini: 'whirling bellower' (ta- agent prefix + heri 'bellow, growl, howl' + yowini 'whirling'). huriyowini: tornado, 'whirling wind'. tipusayowini: dust devil, 'whirling dust'. wishiyowini: waterspout, 'whirling water'.","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":"Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Yanatame Nisa Luhchi Yoroni (draft Tunica dictionary, 2018), p. 64","url":"https://www.webonary.org/tunica/files/DraftDictionary20180727LargePrint.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Yanatame Nisa Luhchi Yoroni (draft Tunica dictionary, 2018), p. 64","source_display":"Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Yanatame Nisa Luhchi Yoroni (draft Tunica dictionary, 2018), p. 64","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, named in Tunica for its whirling and bellowing.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tunica","display_name":"Taheriyowini, the whirling bellower","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NAAIN-020_naain-020-bel-abbey-bullroarer.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAAIN-020_naain-020-bel-abbey-bullroarer_thumb.jpg","credit":"Maida Owens / Louisiana Folklife Program, Keeping It Alive (1993), Bel Abbey profile","license":"Rights reserved (Maida Owens / Louisiana Folklife Program); rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.louisianafolklife.org/lt/virtual_books/keeping_it/creole_book_keep_koas.html","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Bel Abbey spins a Koasati bullroarer near Elton, Louisiana.","pool_id":"auto-NAAIN-020_naain-020-bel-abbey-bullroarer"},"slug":"tunicabiloxi2018-001-tunica-tunica-biloxi-tribe-of-louisiana"}