The Bullroarer Atlas

No. HARRINGTON1928-001

Kiowa bullroarer word (Harrington 1928)

United States · Kiowa Agency · Anadarko, Oklahoma · North America · Plains

Function not recorded

Hopi wooden blade painted with a red zigzag, British Museum.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Hopi wooden blade painted with a red zigzag, British Museum. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Image source

gyǹ-bou-pọu-gyʜ-gɑ

Source term: gyǹ-bou-pọu-gyʜ-gɑ (dual pl. gyǹ-bou-pọu-gyʜ)

Kiowa 'bull-roarer'.

'I made several bullroarers,' a Kiowa man remarked to John Peabody Harrington at Anadarko in 1918, and the linguist wrote the sentence down in Kiowa, as he wrote everything down. So the word survives — gyǹ-bou-pọu-gyʜ-gɑ, built on pọu-, 'to sound' — and with it the news that Kiowa hands made them, several at a time.

gyǹ-bou-pọụgyʜ gyǹt-'ɑ'mẹi

John P. Harrington, Vocabulary of the Kiowa Language (BAE Bulletin 84, 1928), p. 70

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Source

John P. Harrington, Vocabulary of the Kiowa Language (BAE Bulletin 84, 1928), p. 70

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.