The Bullroarer Atlas

BOURKE1892-004 - secondary catalog

Rio Grande Pueblo tribes

United States - Rio Grande Pueblo region, New Mexico - North America

Weather / fertility magic

Fewkes's painted plate of the Ciwikoli katcina, a masked dancer swinging a small dark whizzer on a cord overhead — the figure Fewkes ties to...
Representative image. Fewkes's painted plate of the Ciwikoli katcina, a masked dancer swinging a small dark whizzer on a cord overhead — the figure Fewkes ties to the Rio Grande pueblos, though the artist who painted it was Hopi. J. W. Fewkes, Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists (21st ARBAE, 1903), pl. XXXV Public domain Image source

Source term: rhombus

Captain John G. Bourke first saw the rhombus, or bull-roarer, swung at the snake dance of the Tusayan at Walpi in August 1881, and went on to report it across the American Southwest. He named the Rio Grande Pueblo tribes as one of the places he found it, in a single line that also mentions the Zuni. He named no particular village and recorded no rite for the Rio Grande Pueblos themselves; they enter his account as one item in a wider regional list, alongside the Apache and the 'Cliff Dweller' ruins of the Verde Valley.

I found the rhombus also among the Rio Grande Pueblo tribes and the Zuñi.

Bourke 1892, The Medicine-Men of the Apache, p. 477
Object
Bourke says he found the rhombus among Rio Grande Pueblo tribes.
Function
Broad regional Pueblo attestation in Bourke's rhombus section.
Map confidence
low - representative coordinate for named people, place, or broad region in Bourke
Source location
printed p. 477

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