Aguano, Lamisto and Tschamikuro toy bullroarers

bōribṓri (Lamisto)

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. 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)

Particulars

Object

Lamisto blade cut from a cane stalk; the Tschamikuro specimen an elongated leaf-shaped blade tapering to a corded point.

Function

Bullroarer recorded as a children's toy among the Lamisto and Tschamikuro and as a former toy among the Aguano.