Yurupari trumpet

The flutes and trumpets of the Yurupari represent the bones of the primordial human being, the creator that brought the first ancestors of all human peoples into being. In the course of his initiation, the creator’s father pushed him into the fire. Out of the ashes rose a palm tree, which the father used to fashion the Yurupari instruments. When he was still alive, the primordial human being already had numerous orifices emitting music. This music can still be heard – also by those uninitiated – when the Yurupari instruments are played during rituals. As the instruments may not be shown in public, there is no photo of this object in the online database.