No. SA-Z1953-018
Koto wigo toy
Northeastern Peru · South America
Play / practical
wígǫ́
Source term: wígǫ́ (Zerries: "wig-o")
wigo = Koto (Orejón, Western Tukanoan) name for the bullroarer, recorded by Tessmann 1930.
Among the Koto (Orejón), a Western Tukanoan people of northeastern Peru, the bullroarer was a children's toy called wígǫ́, the blade rigged to its cord and stick, Tessmann noted, like a fishing rod. Among their neighbours the Panobo, Lamisto, Tshamikuro and Aguano the instrument was likewise whirled only in play.
Ein Schwirrholz = wígǫ́, bei dem das Holz angelartig an Schnur und Stock befestigt ist ... Es ist lediglich Spielzeug.
A bullroarer, wígǫ́, in which the wood is fastened to cord and stick in the manner of a fishing rod ... It is merely a toy.
Tessmann 1930:198-199 (Koto, rubric 47)
Particulars
- Function
- Bullroarer known as children's toy
Source
Günter Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus: Grundlegende Forschungen für eine systematische Kulturkunde (Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1930), pp. 198-199; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 287