Tembé (Tenetehara) bullroarer, Pará, 1957

Source term: Zunidor

The Tembé who made this little roarer — eighteen centimetres of oblong board on a cotton cord — call themselves Tenetehara, simply 'people'. Their forebears came west out of Maranhão in the mid-nineteenth century to settle the rivers of Pará, pushing onto the Acará into the lands of the Turiwara. From the Acará, in 1957, the government's Indian Protection Service sent the board to the national Indian museum in Rio de Janeiro.

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

Particulars

Object

An oblong wooden board, 18.2 cm long, one end notched and the other pierced, with a cotton cord hanging from the hole.

Function

Function not recorded.