The Bullroarer Atlas

NA-S1952-004 - secondary catalog

Wimonuntci Ute

United States - Great Basin - Colorado Plateau - North America

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A pale, faintly bowed wooden slat with a cord threaded through a hole at one end - one of a set of Hopi bullroarers in Oslo's ethnographic...
Representative image. A pale, faintly bowed wooden slat with a cord threaded through a hole at one end - one of a set of Hopi bullroarers in Oslo's ethnographic museum, shown here because no photograph exists of the Wimonuntci Ute instrument documented on this page. Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Etnografisk) (UEM29633/b) CC BY-SA Image source

Source term: bullroarer

Among the Wimonuntci Ute — the band more often written Weeminuche, the southernmost of the Colorado Ute — the bull-roarer was forbidden to women. Theodore Seder set the prohibition down in a single line in his 1952 Penn Museum survey of New World instruments, alongside the same restriction among other Southwestern peoples, and added nothing further about the rite it belonged to.

The Wimonuntci Ute bull-roarer was also taboo to women.

Seder 1952:51-54 ("Old World Overtones in the New World," University Museum Bulletin XVI:4)
Function
Bullroarer taboo to women
Map confidence
low_medium - regional_anchor: Group/locality spelling and exact regional placement remain broad in Seder; source-sufficient as a caveated survey row
Source location
51-54

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