No. SA-Z1953-029
Chimane toy
Eastern Bolivia · South America
Play / practical
kakabadje
Source term: Schwirrgerät / Schwirrholz / bullroarer
kakabadje — Chimane (Tsimane') name for the bullroarer, recorded by Wegner as a children's toy.
Among the Chimane of the Bolivian Mojos lowlands the bullroarer survived only as a children's plaything, called kakabadje. Their neighbours the Chacobo, Yuracaré and Guarayu kept it the same way: for all of them the whirled wood had dwindled to a toy.
The Chimane still know it as a toy and call it Kakabadje.
Zerries 1953:288 (The Bull-roarer among South American Indians), citing Wegner p.233
Particulars
- Function
- Bullroarer still known as toy and called Kakabadje
Source
Richard N. Wegner, Zum Sonnentor durch altes Indianerland (Darmstadt: Wittich, 1936), p. 233; Otto Zerries, 'The Bull-roarer among South American Indians,' Revista do Museu Paulista n.s. 7 (1953), p. 288