The Bullroarer Atlas

SA-Z1953-019 - ethnographic attestation

Aguano; Lamisto; Tschamikuro

Northeastern Peru - South America

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An elongated wooden blade tapering to a corded point — the Tschamikuro bullroarer itself, drawn for Tessmann’s plates; when he collected it,...
An elongated wooden blade tapering to a corded point — the Tschamikuro bullroarer itself, drawn for Tessmann’s plates; when he collected it, its native name had already been forgotten. Günther Tessmann, Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930), Tafel 85, Fig. 3 Public domain

bōribṓri (Lamisto) Lamisto (Lamista Quechua), northeastern Peru

Source term: bōribṓri (Zerries: "bori bori")

The Tschamikuro showed Tessmann their bullroarer — the slender leaf-shaped blade he drew for his plates — but when he asked its name, no one could remember it: 'Der Name war leider vergessen.' Among the neighbouring Lamisto the toy was still current and still named, bōribṓri, its blade cut from a cane stalk, while an Aguano man could say only that such a toy had once existed; he himself had never seen one. Three small testimonies from the Huallaga country to the same instrument fading from memory.

... und ein Schwirrholz, wie Taf. 85, Fig. 3 zeigt. Der Name war leider vergessen.

... and a bullroarer, as Plate 85, Fig. 3 shows. The name, sadly, was forgotten.

Tessmann 1930:404 (Tschamikuro, rubric 47)
Object
Lamisto blade cut from a cane stalk; the Tschamikuro specimen an elongated leaf-shaped blade tapering to a corded point (Tessmann Taf. 85, Fig. 3).
Function
Bullroarer recorded as a children's toy among the Lamisto and Tschamikuro and as a former toy among the Aguano.
Map confidence
medium - regional_anchor: Aggregate cluster row covering more than one group.
Source location
Zerries 1953:287, 296; Tessmann 1930:228, 262, 404 and Tafel 85 fig. 3 caption p. 491

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