MUS2026-087 - museum specimen
Kayapo bull-roarer (museum)
Brazil - Xingu basin, Para - Mato Gro - South America
Function not recorded
Source term: bull-roarer
A buzzing tube of the Kayapo from the Xingu River basin, accessioned by the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka in 1983. The catalogue files it as a musical instrument, an "unari-zutsu" or buzzing tube, forty centimeters long and weighing 230 grams; no use or ritual context was recorded with it.
楽器（うなり筒）
Musical instrument (buzzing tube)
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (Minpaku), object record H0110540
- Object
- Bull-roarer of the Kayapo, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (Minpaku).
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - approximate culture/locality centroid
- Source location
Page references
object record H0110540 (Minpaku)