MUS2026-115 - museum specimen
Tembé (Tenetehara), Pará
Brazil - Pará - Maranhão (Tenetehara) - South America - Amazonia
Function not recorded
Source term: Zunidor
An oblong wooden board 18.2 cm long, one end carved and the other pierced by a hole from which a cotton cord hangs: a bullroarer made by the Tembé (Tenetehara) of Pará in 1957, held by the Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas in Rio de Janeiro as item 8111. The record names the maker as Tembé and the place only as Pará. It does not say who swung the board, on what occasion, or what sound it made.
Zunidor confeccionado com prancha de madeira oblonga apresentando uma das extremidades entalhada e a outra exibindo um orifício de onde pende um fio de algodão
Bullroarer made from an oblong wooden board, one end carved and the other showing a hole from which a cotton thread hangs.
Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas / FUNAI, Item 8111 - Zunidor
- Object
- Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas / FUNAI item 8111: an oblong wooden-board zunidor, one end notched and the other pierced with a cotton cord hanging from it; length 18.2 cm.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Representative Tembé/Tenetehara territory anchor retained from the provisional row; source page localizes only to Pará.
- Source location
- Item 8111 - Zunidor