The Bullroarer Atlas

DOMINGUES2008-001 - ethnographic attestation

Porangaba Recomenda das Almas groups

Brazil - Porangaba - São Paulo - South America

Sacred / spirit

Representative—not this record’s object: a pair of Apinayé bullroarers from Brazil.
Representative—not this record’s object: a pair of Apinayé bullroarers from Brazil. Curt Nimuendajú, The Apinayé (1939), fig. 25 Public domain Image source
Apinaye bullroarer GM-31.40.266 as a complete handstick, cord, and narrow wooden blade.
Apinaye bullroarer GM-31.40.266 as a complete handstick, cord, and narrow wooden blade. Vera Primavera in Aguirre-Fernandez et al. 2021, fig. 1g, after Izikowitz 1935 (GM-31.40.266); cropped from the published figure CC BY 4.0 Image source

vumvum / berra-boi Portuguese

Source term: vumvum (also called berra-boi)

vumvum = Porangaba name for the cord-whirled berra-boi

Across Porangaba’s rural bairros, Recomenda das Almas routes passed through Florentino, Ferreira, Mariano, Bueno, and Carrascal. The groups used a sound-maker called the vumvum, also known as berra-boi, spinning a piece of wood rapidly on a cord to produce a strong hum.

vumvum (conhecido também como berra-boi, um cordão com pedaço de madeira na ponta e que girado, rapidamente, provocava forte zumbido)

vumvum (also known as berra-boi, a cord with a piece of wood at the end which, when rapidly spun, produced a strong hum)

A historia de Porangaba, p. 69
Object
Cord with a piece of wood at its end, spun rapidly to produce a strong hum.
Function
Rural Recomenda das Almas route through named Porangaba bairros.
Map confidence
high - IBGE municipal-seat coordinate; source describes a multi-bairro rural route.
Source location
p. 69

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