The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-115 - museum specimen

Tembé (Tenetehara), Pará

Brazil - Pará - Maranhão (Tenetehara) - South America - Amazonia

Function not recorded

Tembé (Tenetehara) bull-roarer, Pará, Brazil — painted slat with cross motifs, drilled cord hole and plaited cord.
Tembé (Tenetehara) bull-roarer, Pará, Brazil — painted slat with cross motifs, drilled cord hole and plaited cord. Världskulturmuseerna / Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg (1922.08.0052); collected by Curt Nimuendajú CC BY 4.0 Image source

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

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