FONSECA2005-001 - ethnographic attestation
Kisgo Manzanal bird-call zumbador
Colombia - Manzanal - Resguardo Indigena de Kisgo - Silvia - Cauca - South America - Andes
Play / practical
Source term: zumbador
zumbador: Spanish source label; no secure Kisgo-language name
At Manzanal, Kisgo elders remembered the zumbador as a childhood voice that imitated local birds. A thin sliver of resonant wood carried one knotted cord, and its pitch shifted with speed, weight, hole size, and cord length. In 2005, children made the remembered instrument again and competed to send it singing around them.
A esta astilla se hace un agujero ... el juego consiste en tomar la pita y mover en forma circular la astilla.
A hole is made in the sliver; the game consists of taking the cord and moving the sliver in a circle.
Fonseca Camacho and Torres 2005:111
- Object
- Thin wooden slat with one end hole and one knotted cord, moved in a circle; pitch varies with speed, wood weight, hole diameter, and cord length.
- Function
- Elders remembered it as a childhood game imitating local bird calls; the 2005 recovery project rebuilt it and children competed in making and sounding it.
- Map confidence
- high - Rounded representative point within Kisgo territory near Silvia; not an asserted workshop or object location.
- Source location
Page references
printed pp. 111-113; Photograph 13 p. 112
- Toy / secular survival