Bora · Colombia, South America
manguaré, slit-log drum pair
IdiophoneDrum pair
Summary
Summary and parametric detail forthcoming.
Bibliography
Thiesen, W. (1969). The Bora Signal Drums. In T. A. Sebeok & J. Umiker-Sebeok (Eds.), Speech Surrogates: Drum and Whistle Systems. 1976. (pp. 1448–1450). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804423-045,Seifart, F., Meyer, J., Grawunder, S., & Dentel, L. (2018). Reducing language to rhythm: Amazonian Bora drummed language exploits speech rhythm for long-distance communication. Royal Society Open Science, 5(4), 170354. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170354