{"id":"CHEVALIER1982-001","label":"Puinave and Maku hidden rhombe","people_or_site":"Puinave; Maku (historical name, subgroup unidentified)","country_current":"Colombia; Venezuela","historic_region":"Orinoco basin (Guainía–Inírida–upper Orinoco)","macroregion":"South America / Orinoco","local_name":"","source_term":"rhombe; bull-roarer","source_language":"French","object_description":"A small wooden board whirled at the end of a cord.","function_summary":"Handled only by men, for ritual reasons; women were forbidden to see it.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"chevalier_gheerbrant1982_rhombe","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://www.biblioesoterik.com/_ESTANTE/livre/SYMBOLISME/SYMBOLES/Dictionnaire_des_Symboles_Chevalier_%26_Gheerbrant.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 817","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Coarse Orinoco–Inírida regional anchor for Puinave country near Inírida, Guainía; not a field site and not the Piaroa point.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Along the Orinoco and its tributaries, the Puinave and the forest people long called Maku kept the roarer a men's affair. It was a small wooden board, set spinning at the end of a cord, and men alone handled it, for reasons of ritual; women were forbidden even to look at it. Their Piaroa neighbours, named in the same breath, guarded their own roaring voices the same way.","pull_quote":"sa vue est interdite aux femmes (Indiens Piaroa, Maku, Puinave de l'Orénoque)","pull_quote_translation":"the sight of it is forbidden to women (Piaroa, Maku and Puinave Indians of the Orinoco)","pull_quote_cite":"Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, Dictionnaire des symboles (1982), p. 817","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, Dictionnaire des symboles: mythes, rêves, coutumes, gestes, formes, figures, couleurs, nombres (Paris: Robert Laffont/Jupiter, 1982), p. 817, s.v. Rhombe"}],"source_citations":"Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, Dictionnaire des symboles: mythes, rêves, coutumes, gestes, formes, figures, couleurs, nombres (Paris: Robert Laffont/Jupiter, 1982), p. 817, s.v. Rhombe","source_display":"Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, Dictionnaire des symboles: mythes, rêves, coutumes, gestes, formes, figures, couleurs, nombres (Paris: Robert Laffont/Jupiter, 1982), p. 817, s.v. Rhombe","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A small wooden board whirled at the end of a cord.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"puinave","display_name":"Puinave and Maku hidden rhombe","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/MUS2026-345_smvk_1928-01-0117.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/thumbs/MUS2026-345_smvk_1928-01-0117_thumb.jpg","credit":"Statens museer för världskultur (1928.01.0117)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/48695","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Taracuá rig complete: blade inked 'DARACUA'","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest2--MUS2026-345_smvk_1928-01-0117","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"chevalier1982-001-puinave-maku-historical-name-subgroup-unidentified"}