DOMINGUES2008-001 - ethnographic attestation
Porangaba São Paulo vumvum berra-boi
Brazil - Porangaba - São Paulo - South America
Sacred / spirit
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