The Bullroarer Atlas

103 records · South America

Bullroarer records — South America

Bullroarer record pages from South America, grouped by present-day country. Each page keeps the record text, source line, image credit, and a link back to the same point on the interactive map.

Argentina 9

  1. Alero de los Jinetes whirled-cord ridersc. 1573–1625 AD - Sierras del Norte / Cerro Colorado, Cordoba Province - Play / practical
  2. Mapuche furfúrwe rain-whirler, Lagunita Salada, ChubutLagunita Salada, Gastre Department, Chubut (northern Patagonian steppe) - Weather / fertility magic
  3. Eastern Mataco bullroarer, Bermejo RiverGran Chaco / Bermejo River - Play / practical
  4. Mbyá-Guaraní waimí kerambú bamboo bullroarer, MisionesMisiones - Play / practical
  5. Northern Patagonia engraved-plaque churinga analoguec. 2200 BC–present - Northern Patagonia / Pampa / Bahia San Blas and related plaque-hacha find regions - Sacred / spirit
  6. Copacabana incised stone bullroarerc. 200 BC - Copacabana / Tinogasta Department / Catamarca - Function not recorded
  7. Pair of incised stone bullroarersc. 200 BC - Catamarca / Northwest Argentina - Function not recorded
  8. Vilela kiré ajlipié bullroarer, eastern ChacoEastern Chaco - Play / practical
  9. Llullaillaco Spondylus buzzing plaquesc. 1462–1507 AD - Inca Empire, Collasuyu / Puna de Atacama, Salta Province - Sacred / spirit

Argentina; Paraguay; Bolivia 1

  1. Mataco, Choroti and Ashluslay toy bullroarersGran Chaco - Play / practical

Bolivia 11

  1. Cavineño Río Beni bullroarer toyRio Beni / La Paz-Beni - Play / practical
  2. Chacobo toyEastern Bolivia - Play / practical
  3. Chimane toyEastern Bolivia - Play / practical
  4. Chiquitano / Churapa bullroarersSanta Cruz region, eastern Bolivia - Play / practical
  5. Guaraŝug'wä ivirapähĩm̃'ne bullroarer, Santa AnitaCampo Grande / Suvivuhu, northern Velasco Province, Santa Cruz Department - Play / practical
  6. Guarayu toyEastern Bolivia - Play / practical
  7. Itonama Machupo long-cord bladeRio Machupo - Function not recorded
  8. Itonama bullroarerEastern Bolivia - Function not recorded
  9. Tiwanaku stone bullroarerc. AD 180–1100 - Tiwanaku archaeological complex, La Paz Department, Bolivian Altiplano (reportedly) - Function not recorded
  10. Wéhnayey jwim-jwim children's whirring toyRío Pilcomayo, Provincia Gran Chaco, Tarija - Play / practical
  11. Yuracare toyEastern Bolivia - Play / practical

Bolivia; Argentina; Paraguay 1

  1. Chiriguano and Chane toyGran Chaco / Eastern Bolivia - Play / practical

Brazil 42

  1. Kalapalo matapu, hidden from womenUpper Xingu, Mato Grosso - Restricted
  2. Apinaye me-galo soul-ghost toyEastern Brazil - Play / practical
  3. Bakairi and Nahuqua upper-Xingu bullroarersCentral Brazil - Play / practical
  4. Two complete Baniwa roarer rigsLower Rio Içana, Santana, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas - Function not recorded
  5. Baniwa Taracuá complete handled rigTaracuá, Rio Uaupés - Play / practical
  6. Bororo - Sao Lourenco and Eastern BrazilEastern Brazil - Restricted
  7. Aige, voice of the Bororo deadMato Grosso / Rio Vermelho / Aldeia Kejara - Restricted
  8. Canela pimpó, the pepye's night alarmMaranhão (Sardinha) - Restricted
  9. Caripuna upper-Madeira funeral bullroarerUpper Madeira - Sacred / spirit
  10. Eastern Timbira - Canella and ChakamekraEastern Brazil - Restricted
  11. Rio das Mortes São João del-Rei MG berra-boiRio das Mortes district, São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais - Sacred / spirit
  12. Itajui Folia das Almas berra-boiItajui / Vale da Gurita, Delfinopolis, Minas Gerais - Sacred / spirit
  13. Ipurina fish-shaped bullroarerAmazon / Purus - Function not recorded
  14. Parapara and uriwuri, female and maleUpper Xingu, Mato Grosso - Restricted
  15. Karaja mask-dance bullroarerCentral Brazil - Restricted
  16. Kayapo buzzing tubeXingu basin, Para/Mato Gro - Function not recorded
  17. Kuikuro roarer swung in the openUpper Xingu, Mato Grosso - Play / practical
  18. Kulisehu River toy bullroarer and sacred fluteUpper Xingu / Kulisehu River - Play / practical
  19. Lagoa das Oncas ceramic zumbidor (MPEG 2011)c. 1000–1600 AD - Upper Xingu / Mato Grosso - Function not recorded
  20. Mashacali initiation bullroarersEastern Brazil - Restricted
  21. Maxakali panandóad voice-of-the-dead rigItanhém region, Minas Gerais / Bahia borderlands - Restricted
  22. Mehinaku upper-Xingu clubhouse bullroarerCentral Brazil - Restricted
  23. Nahukúá Little LightningUpper Xingu (Steinen expeditions of 1884 and 1887-88) - Play / practical
  24. Nahuquä matavu fish-form bullroarerKulisehu (Curisevo) river, Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso - Play / practical
  25. Nordeste Brazil folk rói-rói (zunidor)Nordeste (sertao); sold at feiras across the region - Play / practical
  26. Porangaba São Paulo vumvum berra-boiPorangaba / São Paulo - Sacred / spirit
  27. São Manuel berra-boiSão Manuel, São Paulo - Sacred / spirit
  28. Morrinhos / rural Palmito berra-boiMorrinhos / rural Palmito, Goiás - Sacred / spirit
  29. Sherente - Hieparo-wawe bullroarerEastern Brazil - Restricted
  30. Shipaya-Kuruaya wari wari samiCentral Brazil / lower Xingu - Restricted
  31. Itapecerica MG Week of Sorrows berra-boiItapecerica, Minas Gerais - Sacred / spirit
  32. Tembé (Tenetehara) bullroarer, Pará, 1957Pará/Maranhão (Tenetehara) - Function not recorded
  33. Santo Antônio da Alegria São Paulo berra-boiSanto Antônio da Alegria / São Paulo - Sacred / spirit
  34. Mare, the great roaring dinUpper Solimões, Amazonas (between Tabatinga and São Paulo de Olivença) - Restricted
  35. Tarëno roarer of the Paru de OesteParu de Oeste-Marapi basin, Tumucumaque Indigenous Park, Pará - Function not recorded
  36. Trumai kuth / huri huri bullroarer, Upper XinguUpper Xingu, Mato Grosso - Restricted
  37. Upper Xingu painted toy bladeUpper Xingu River / Mato Grosso - Play / practical
  38. Wajãpi ancestral rhombe, Oyapock-Amapá rangeOyapock / Amapá and French Guiana - Sacred / spirit
  39. Matapu, the fish spirit of the pequi festivalUpper Xingu, Mato Grosso - Restricted
  40. Xavante blade outside the wai'aMato Grosso - Function not recorded
  41. Xerente hipã-wave-wazdizéPiabanha, Tocantins region - Function not recorded
  42. Xipaya warī warī sámį, Curuá RiverUpper Curuá River / Iriri–Xingu, Pará - Restricted

Brazil; Colombia; Venezuela 1

  1. Baniwa bullroarer and Botuto/Jurupari contextNorthwestern Brazil / Rio Negro - Function not recorded

Brazil; Paraguay 1

  1. Mbaya-Caduveo funeral and toy bullroarerGran Chaco / Paraguay River - Sacred / spirit

Brazil; Peru; Colombia 1

  1. Tukuna rare bullroarer and puberty-rite contextUpper Amazon - Function not recorded

Chile 2

  1. Furfurcabue, whirled against evil spiritsAraucanía, Chile - Sacred / spirit
  2. Concón copper-and-slate plate pendantsc. AD 500–1000 - Site ENAP-3, Concón, on low hills behind the ENAP oil refinery, bordering the Aconcagua Valley, central Chile - Function not recorded

Colombia 6

  1. Cubeo (Kobeua / Kubeo)Upper Vaupés / Cuduiarí and Querarí rivers - Restricted
  2. Cubeo stone bullroarer, Cuduyari RiverCuduyari River / Vaupes - Sacred / spirit
  3. Desana nurá-mee bullroarer, VaupésVaupés / upper Rio Negro cultural region - Sacred / spirit
  4. Kagaba (Kogi)Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta - Play / practical
  5. Noanamá (Waunana / Wounaan)Isla de Munguidó, San Juan River, Chocó - Play / practical
  6. Kisgo Manzanal bird-call zumbadorManzanal / Resguardo Indigena de Kisgo / Silvia / Cauca - Play / practical

Colombia; Panama 1

  1. Choco toy and spirit-protection bullroarerChoco / Darien - Play / practical

Colombia; Venezuela 1

  1. Motilones ritual bullroarerCircum-Caribbean / Sierra de Perija - Restricted

Ecuador 1

  1. Atshuana pumbuentzade, Morona SantiagoMorona Santiago Province - Play / practical

Guyana 1

  1. Waiwai roarer of two turtle shellsEssequibo headwaters - Function not recorded

Paraguay 1

  1. Nivaclé pale Chaco bladeGuachalla, Pilcomayo region - Function not recorded

Peru 15

  1. Aguano Lamisto Tschamikuro toy clusterNortheastern Peru - Play / practical
  2. Aymara child's bull-roarer, ChucuitoChucuito, Puno — northwestern Lake Titicaca basin - Play / practical
  3. Campa meromero jaguar bullroarerPerené-Tambo drainages, Selva Central montaña (Tessmann's Kampa area) - Play / practical
  4. Cashinahua asu bullroarer (INC 1978)Upper Purús/Juruá - Function not recorded
  5. Chapra / Shapra palo zumbador Morona basinPushaga-Sicuanga tributaries of the Morona River - Play / practical
  6. Huitoto Peruvian Amazon feather bullroarerPeruvian Amazon / Loreto - Play / practical
  7. Kampa jaguar-warning bullroarerNortheastern Peru / Montana - Play / practical
  8. Kashibo thunder-voice toy and mask contextNortheastern Peru - Restricted
  9. Koto wigo toyNortheastern Peru - Play / practical
  10. Matsigenka roarers made for childrenUrubamba River, Ucayali - Sacred / spirit
  11. Ancon perforated bone lathsc. 200 BC–AD 1550 - Lima Region / Ancon necropolis (no period assigned) - Function not recorded
  12. Nomatsigenga palo zumbador PangoaPangoa and Sonomoro valleys, Satipo, Junin (Selva Central montana) - Function not recorded
  13. Panobo reo reo toyNortheastern Peru - Play / practical
  14. Shipibo-Conibo palo zumbador YarinacochaYarinacocha / Ucayali - Function not recorded
  15. Three Vicús stone buzzing plaquesc. 500 BC–AD 400 - Piura region / far north coast; Vicús culture area - Function not recorded

Peru; Brazil 1

  1. Omagua former child-frightening bullroarerNortheastern Peru / Upper Amazon - Play / practical

Peru; Colombia 1

  1. Bora toy in renewal-resurrection festival contextNorthwestern Amazon / Peru - Play / practical

Suriname; French Guiana; Brazil 1

  1. Oayana (Wayana) yolok eu calabash bullroarerLitani, Paloemeu-Tapanahoni, Jari and Paru borderlands - Sacred / spirit

Suriname; Guyana; French Guiana 1

  1. Carib Wun-wun medicine-man bullroarerGuiana / Circum-Caribbean - Restricted

Venezuela 4

  1. Piaroa / Wothuja Imu-chuwo Warime bullroarerMiddle and upper Orinoco / Amazonas - Restricted
  2. Pume calabash disc on nylon stringLlanos, Venezuela - Function not recorded
  3. Triangular Sanumá blade painted in yellowYanomami (Sanumá), upper Orinoco/Caura - Function not recorded
  4. Waika alabaco, MahekodotediUpper Orinoco / Mahekodotedi (El Platanal) - Play / practical