The Bullroarer Atlas

No. MUS2026-087

Kayapo buzzing tube

Brazil · Xingu basin, Para · Mato Gro · South America

Function not recorded

A long, pale wooden Canela pimpó with a broad flat blade and a narrowed grip wrapped in cord.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Canela pimpó collected by Curt Nimuendajú in 1931. CC BY 4.0 · Image source

Source term: bull-roarer

A buzzing tube of the Kayapo from the Xingu River basin, forty centimeters long and weighing 230 grams, reached the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka in 1983 under the name "unari-zutsu." Nothing of its use or ritual setting came with it.

楽器(うなり筒)

Musical instrument (buzzing tube)

National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (Minpaku), object record H0110540

Particulars

Object
Bull-roarer of the Kayapo, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (Minpaku).
Function
Not recorded.

Source

National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (Minpaku), H0110540

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