Chapra / Shapra palo zumbador Morona basin

Source term: palo zumbador

palo zumbador: Spanish catalogue term for the cord-whirled free aerophone.

Among the Chapra, the palo zumbador came from somewhere else — and the children made it their own: a small blade tied by cord to a stick and swept in a circle until it spun on its axis and hummed. It stayed a children's thing, with no ceremony attached. The Chapra themselves, a nation of a few hundred on the Sicuanga and Pushaga streams of the Morona, were long filed under the catch-all label 'Jívaro'; their language, Kandozi-Chapra, belongs to a small family all its own.

Es un instrumento de introducción, es decir, traído por otro grupo. Es usado por los niños. Localización Cultural: Candoshi (Shapra).

It is an introduced instrument, that is, brought by another group. It is used by children. Cultural location: Candoshi (Shapra).

Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Peru (1978), p. 461.

Particulars

Object

Small lamina with a terminal groove or hole, tied by cord to a stick and whirled in a circle so it spins on its axis and hums.

Function

Introduced instrument used by children.