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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.
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)
