No. BOLANOS1978-001
Huitoto Peruvian Amazon feather bullroarer
Peru · Peruvian Amazon · Loreto · South America
Play / practical
pluma zumbadora
pluma zumbadora: Spanish, 'buzzing feather'.
Among bullroarers of wood and bone, the Huitoto whirled feathers: several guan feathers tied to one cord and a short handstick. No village, rite, or story was set down with it.
Kein Schwirrholz. ... Ein Spiel mit Penelopefedern, die an eine Schnur gebunden sind und die ein surrendes Geräusch geben, ist üblich.
No bullroarer. ... A game with Penelope (guan) feathers, tied to a cord, which give a whirring sound, is customary.
Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930), p. 321 (Uitoto, rubric 47).
Particulars
- Object
- Several Penelope (guan) feathers tied to a single cord and a small handstick.
- Function
- A customary game: guan feathers on a cord, whirled for their whirring sound. Tessmann records no wooden bullroarer for the Uitoto.
Source
César Bolaños et al., Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Perú (Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 1978), pp. 461-462, entry 3, after Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930); José Pérez de Arce (2025), fig. 1913