No. STEWART1942-004
Pahvant Ute toy bullroarer
United States · Lower Sevier River and Sevier Lake desert · Kanosh, Utah · North America · Great Basin
Play / practical
muyaratinumpö
Source term: Bull-roarer: whirrer of wood
muyaratinumpö: the Pahvant term for the bull-roarer in Stewart's comparative vocabulary; no literal gloss is given.
John Kanosh — grandson of the famous Chief Kanosh, and at sixty-five a practicing shaman himself — remembered the bull-roarer of the Sevier desert as a plaything: a wooden blade whirled on a handled string, the muyaratinumpö. His Pahvant people ranged the salt lake, the lower Sevier River, and the desert mountains beyond, country not much kinder than the Goshute desert to the north; in his account the whirring blade carried no weather power at all.
Particulars
- Object
- Whirrer of wood swung on a string with a wooden handle.
- Function
- Whirled as a toy; no weather use recorded.
Source
Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Ute Pahvant list; informant John Kanosh, ca. 65, born at Kanosh, Utah, grandson of Chief Kanosh, himself a shaman (p. 238)