INC1978-003 - secondary catalog
Nomatsigenga (Campa Nomatsiguenga)
Peru - Pangoa and Sonomoro valleys, Satipo, Junin (Selva Central montana) - South America - Upper Amazon
Function not recorded
Source term: palo zumbador
palo zumbador: Spanish catalogue term for the cord-whirled free aerophone; no Nomatsigenga-language name recovered.
A small board tied to a cord, thrown and set spinning in the air until it hummed — so the palo zumbador of the Nomatsigenga was described in a 1975 Lima interview with the missionary-linguist Harold Shaver and his colleagues, who set down the instruments of three peoples in one typescript: Shapra, Nomatsigenga, Taushiro. In the Pangoa and Sonomoro valleys of Peru's Selva Central, the Nomatsigenga — the name holds matsigenga, 'person': roughly 'my own people' — had long been subsumed with their Asháninka kin under the colonial label Campa; Shaver later wrote their dictionary.
Consiste en una tablilla amarrada a una cuerda que, lanzada y haciéndola girar en el aire, zumba.
It consists of a small board tied to a cord which, thrown and made to spin in the air, hums.
Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Mapa de los instrumentos musicales de uso popular en el Peru (1978), p. 462.
- Object
- Small board tied to a cord which, thrown and made to spin in the air, hums.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium_high - San Ramon de Pangoa, Pangoa district, Satipo, Junin: representative point inside the Nomatsigenga core basins named by the Ministry of Culture (Anapati, Sonomoro, Pangoa, Mazamari); the interview names the people, not a village.
- Source location
- printed p. 462 (entry 5); bibliography entry 190 at printed p. 580