Baniwa Taracuá complete handled rig

Source term: Vinare

vinare (Swedish): 'bullroarer'.

Taracuá stands on the Uaupés, in the heartland of the Kuwai or Jurupari cult, where a sacred voice is kept from women and revealed only to initiated men. That voice belongs to the great paxiuba-palm flutes and trumpets, said to be the body of a slain creator-child — not to the whirled blade. Otto Zerries went hunting for a link between the bullroarer and Jurupari and reported plainly that he could not find one anywhere in the literature. The Gothenburg catalogue calls this eighty-one-centimetre rig, blade and cord and handle still together, a bullroarer and a toy.

Particulars

Object

An 81 cm assembly preserving the long wooden blade, cord and separate wooden handle.

Function

A toy.