MUS2026-155 - museum specimen
Tiriyó
Brazil - Paru de Oeste-Marapi basin, Tumucumaque Indigenous Park, Pará - South America - Guiana Shield
Function not recorded
Source term: Schwirrholz
Schwirrholz: German museum-catalogue term; no Tiriyó name is recorded.
A broad wooden roarer, its cord still threaded through the narrowed end, carried out of the Tumucumaque uplands in 1974 — a decade after missions began gathering the scattered communities there into large mission settlements. The people it came from are known on maps as Tiriyó, but they call themselves Tarëno: 'people from here.'
Schwirrholz. Tiriyó. Brasilien.
Bullroarer. Tiriyó. Brazil.
Museum der Kulturen Basel, IVc 16316.
- Object
- 28 cm wooden bullroarer board with a cord through its narrowed, pierced end (MKB IVc 16316 photograph).
- Function
- Occurrence documented; use not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Brazilian Tiriyó regional anchor at the Paru de Oeste-Marapi basin. A FUNAI source gives a mission-era Brazilian Tiriyó center at 1°57' N, 55°49' W; this is not an asserted collection locality.
- Source location
- MKB IVc 16316