cambarysu

See also: Cambarysu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Catuquinaru cambarysu.

Noun

cambarysu (plural cambarysus)

1. A device reportedly used by the Catuquinaru to communicate, consisting of a wooden drum, filled with various materials and half-buried; when one was beaten, the vibrations (travelling through the earth) could be heard on the devices in other villages up to 1.5 km away.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cambarysu.

Translations

drum

• Catuquinaru: cambarysu
• French: cambarysu
• German: Cambarysu m
• Portuguese: cambarysú

Catuquinaru

Side-view cross-section. A: packed coarse sand; b: fine sand; c: pieces of wood; d: pieces of bone; e: pulverized mica; f: empty space; g: leather; h: wood; i: rubber; k: soil; l: rubber; m: bits of wood, leather, etc.

Top-down view, and hammer. A: drum; b: rubber covering the well; c: wooden handle; d: rubber; e: leather.

Noun

cambarysu

1. cambarysu

Further reading

• Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, Il "Cambarysú": telefono dei Catuquinarú dell'Amazzonia (1898)
• Nordisk tidskrift för vetenskap, konst och industri (1899), edited by Claes Annerstedt, Oscar Montelius
• Prometheus: Illustrierte Wochenschrift über die Fortschritte, volume 20 (1908) (discusses Bach's reports of seeing the device and its workings, and mentions some scholars' scepticism of that the device existed and functioned as described)