CHENG2015-002 - ethnographic attestation
Puyuma childhood bullroarer, Katratripulr
Taiwan - Katratripulr (Zhiben), Taitung - East Asia
Play / practical
Sangpuy Katatepan of Katratripulr, the Puyuma community at Zhiben, remembered the instrument from his own childhood: a thin slip of bamboo on a string, tied to a bamboo stick and swung until it sounded. 'That was a toy during our childhood,' he told the ethnomusicologist Jen-hao Cheng in 2009 — and then turned the question around: 'Can it be regarded as a musical instrument?' Among the Puyuma, he confirmed, it was a plaything.
Sanpuy: That was a toy during our childhood. Can it be regarded as a musical instrument?
Sangpuy Katatepan, interview with L. J. Cheng, 10 Aug 2009; Cheng 2015, printed p. 899
- Object
- A thin slip of bamboo tied by one string to a bamboo handstick, swung by the string.
- Function
- Remembered childhood toy.
- Map confidence
- high - Zhiben (Katratripulr), Taitung City.
- Source location
Page references
printed pp. 899-901 (interview transcript)