The Bullroarer Atlas

RIBEIRO2016-001 - ethnographic attestation

Terno Irmãos Paiva

Brazil - Santo Antônio da Alegria - São Paulo - South America

Sacred / spirit

Representative—not this record’s object: a Maxakalí bullroarer from Brazil.
Representative—not this record’s object: a Maxakalí bullroarer from Brazil. Världskulturmuseet, Gothenburg (1946.03.0049); collected by Curt Nimuendajú, 1939 CC0 Image source

berra-boi Portuguese

berra-boi = local name in the Terno Irmãos Paiva account

The Terno Irmãos Paiva used the berra-boi in its Canto pras Almas at Santo Antônio da Alegria. The small bamboo instrument belonged to an ensemble that also used a wooden corrupio at the rite’s opening and close.

um pedaço pequeno de bambu amarrado a um barbante com um pequeno orifício na ponta

a small piece of bamboo tied to a cord, with a small hole at the end

Priscila Ribeiro, O Canto pras Almas do Terno Irmãos Paiva de Santo Antônio da Alegria-SP (2016), p. 395
Object
Small bamboo piece tied to a cord, with a small hole at the end.
Function
Canto pras Almas souls' rite of the Terno Irmãos Paiva.
Map confidence
high - Santo Antônio da Alegria municipal centre; source describes a moving local rite.
Source location
p. 395

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