{"id":"WALLACE1952-001","label":"Comanche yuane 'warm wind' medicine bullroarer","people_or_site":"Comanche, Southern Plains","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Comancheria / southwestern Oklahoma","macroregion":"North America / Plains","local_name":"yuane (yu'anee)","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"A cedar slat, sometimes with notches along one edge to represent the beaver's tail.","function_summary":"Medicine: curing, summoning to the Beaver Ceremony, and protection in war.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"wallace_hoebel_1952_comanche","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/comancheslordsof0000wall","page_or_plate":"Wallace & Hoebel 1952, pp. 175-176","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Lawton / Wichita Mountains anchor — where Hoebel's 1933 Comanche informants were interviewed; the practice is people-wide, not local.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Comanche called it the warm wind. Yu'anee was a cedar slat, its edge sometimes cut into notches to be the beaver's tail, and it belonged to the medicine men, who used it in curing the sick. At the Beaver Ceremony it swung at the tipi to call the people in; in war it rode near the shield, and in the moment of danger a man whirled it to feel his power — a bullet, they said, would come straight, and miss.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"yuane / yu'anee — 'warm wind.'","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (1952), pp. 175-176; Thomas W. Kavanagh (ed.), Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie (2008), pp. 169-170","url":"https://archive.org/details/comancheslordsof0000wall"}],"source_citations":"Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (1952), pp. 175-176; Thomas W. Kavanagh (ed.), Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie (2008), pp. 169-170","source_display":"Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (1952), pp. 175-176; Thomas W. Kavanagh (ed.), Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie (2008), pp. 169-170","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A cedar slat, sometimes with notches along one edge to represent the beaver's tail.","function_display":"Medicine: curing, summoning to the Beaver Ceremony, and protection in war.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"comanche","display_name":"Comanche yuane 'warm wind' medicine bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/NA-S1952-005_penn22610_467908.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/NA-S1952-005_penn22610_467908_thumb.jpg","alt":"Zuni wooden bullroarer 22610, with a narrow blade and long cord laid out beside it.","credit":"Courtesy of the Penn Museum, object 22610","license":"Penn Museum — educational/non-commercial use","source_page":"https://collections.penn.museum/collections/object/85942","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Zuni bullroarer with surviving cord","pool_id":"american-west-zuni-corded","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-03"},"slug":"wallace1952-001-comanche-southern-plains"}