MUS2026-148 - museum specimen
Cavineño
Bolivia - Rio Beni - La Paz-Beni - Americas - South America
Play / practical
Source term: vinare, leksak
vinare = Swedish museum object class; no Cavineño local term is recorded.
Only five centimetres long, this tiny Cavineño toy still carries the cord that sent it buzzing through the air. Erland Nordenskiöld collected it on the Río Beni during his 1913–14 expedition.
Leksak som ger ett surrande ljud nar den hastigt svanges i luften.
A toy that gives a buzzing sound when rapidly swung in the air.
Swedish Museums of World Culture / Carlotta 1915.01.1453
- Object
- Dark, rounded 5 cm blade with a single terminal perforation, retaining its cord; material is not recorded in the online catalogue.
- Function
- Children's toy
- Map confidence
- high - Current Misión Cavinas (Cavinas Nuevo) hamlet, OSM node 3225445671 / GeoNames 3921721; a culture-area anchor for the museum’s Río Beni provenance, not the collection point.
- Source location
- object record 1915.01.1453
- Toy / secular survival