The Bullroarer Atlas

INC1978-002 - secondary catalog

Chapra (Shapra; historical Candoshi-Shapra label)

Peru - Pushaga-Sicuanga tributaries of the Morona River - South America - Upper Amazon

Play / practical

Representative—not this record’s object: Kaxinawa upper-Amazon bullroarer, shown as a regional stand-in; no image of this record’s own object...
Representative—not this record’s object: Kaxinawa upper-Amazon bullroarer, shown as a regional stand-in; no image of this record’s own object is available yet. Courtesy of the Penn Museum (non-commercial / educational use) Image source

Source term: palo zumbador

palo zumbador: Spanish catalogue term for the cord-whirled free aerophone; no Chapra-language name recovered.

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. The 1978 national survey records it plainly as an introduced children's instrument, 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.
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.
Map confidence
medium_high - Representative Pushaga-Morona stream reach; the source names Chapra/Shapra but no village or performance site.
Source location
printed p. 461

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