STEWART1942-010 - primary ethnography
Antarianunts Southern Paiute bullroarer
United States - Henry Mountains, Garfield County, Utah - North America - Great Basin
Function not recorded
niayaranömpö
Source term: Bull-roarer: whirrer of wood
niayaranömpö: the Antarianunts term in Stewart's comparative vocabulary (printed p. 352), close to the Kaibab and San Juan Paiute naiyaratinömpö and carrying the same Numic instrumental ending -nömpö. No literal gloss is given.
The Antarianunts held the country around the Henry Mountains in southern Utah — bare sandstone, and still, when Stewart wrote, one of the least accessible corners of the state. He knew of no other mention of the band anywhere in print. Rosie Timmican, born and reared there and a young woman when the first white men came through, gave him their word for the bull-roarer, niayaranömpö, and said her people had both a wooden one and one cut from mountain-sheep horn. Both, she said, were recent. What it was used for she did not say, and she would not talk much about doctoring either.
- Object
- A wooden whirrer and a mountain-sheep-horn form, both reported as recent.
- Function
- Use not recorded.
- Source
- Omer C. Stewart, Culture Element Distributions: XVIII, Ute-Southern Paiute, Anthropological Records 6(4) (1942), Southern Paiute Antarianunts list (SA). Informant: Rosie Timmican (RT), also known as Rosie Tom, Rosie Arrowgarp and Mrs. Jessie Jim, age ca. 80, both parents Antarianunts; born and reared near the Henry Mountains and living near Koosharem, Utah…
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 291 (els. 2792 R, 2793 R; els. 2794-2802 marked with the refusal symbol; el. 4087 - , p. 315); vocabulary p. 352; band p. 237; informant p. 239
- Source confidence
- medium Henry Mountains, Garfield County, Utah — the country assigned to the band. Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.