{"id":"GENTILE2018-003","label":"Three Vicús stone buzzing plaques","people_or_site":"Vicús culture, Piura, far northern Peru","country_current":"Peru","historic_region":"Piura region / far north coast; Vicús culture area","macroregion":"South America","local_name":"placa zumbadora","source_term":"probables placas zumbadoras de piedra","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Three flat stone plaques, each with a single hole near one edge, published together as one comparison set: 87886, nearly circular, 78.50 mm maximum diameter, 88 g; 87882, compact rectangular, 78 mm high and 50 mm wide, 60 g; 87884, trapezoidal, 78 mm high and 64 mm wide, 51 g. Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, Lima. No thickness is published for any of the three.","function_summary":"Stone buzzing plaques, whirled on a cord for their sound, in Gentile's reading.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"gentile2018_mnaahp_vicus_stone_plaques","source_type":"journal_article","source_url":"https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/10366/148124/1/Placas_zumbadoras_y_sogas_sibilantes_aso.pdf","page_or_plate":"Gentile 2018, Fig. 15 and caption at printed p. 33; terminology note p. 19 n. 9; MNAAHP accessions 87886, 87882 and 87884","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Chulucanas, Morropón province, Piura region — the public locality nearest the Cerro Vicús archaeological hill, about seven kilometres away — as a representative culture-area point for the catalogue attribution 'Vicús'. Cerro Vicús itself has no verifiable public coordinate. The objects are held in Lima; the point marks the region the accessions are attributed to, and no findspot is published.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Three flat stones lie side by side in a photograph from the national museum in Lima: one almost round, one a small rectangle, one a trapezoid, none of them eight centimetres tall, each with a hole bored near an edge. They are attributed to Vicús, the culture of the Piura valleys on Peru's far northern coast; beyond that, only their sizes and weights are recorded. Margarita Gentile, gathering comparisons for the whirled plaques she had found on Llullaillaco, printed all three together under a single heading: probable stone buzzing plaques. Nobody records where they were dug, or when.","pull_quote":"Probables placas zumbadoras de piedra, de izquierda a derecha: Nro. 87886, diám. máx. 78,50 mm, peso 88 grs. Vicús. Nro. 87882, 78 mm alto, 50 mm ancho, peso 60 grs. Vicús. Nro. 87884, 78 mm alto, 64 mm ancho, peso 51 grs. Vicús.","pull_quote_translation":"Probable stone buzzing plaques, from left to right: no. 87886, maximum diameter 78.50 mm, weight 88 g, Vicús; no. 87882, 78 mm high, 50 mm wide, weight 60 g, Vicús; no. 87884, 78 mm high, 64 mm wide, weight 51 g, Vicús.","pull_quote_cite":"Gentile 2018, Fig. 15 caption, p. 33","term_gloss":"placa zumbadora (Spanish): 'buzzing plaque', bullroarer; Gentile 2018 p. 19 n. 9 gives churinga, bullroarer, bramadera and rombo as synonyms, after Pérez Bugallo 1993.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"assemblage","date_display":"c. 500 BC–AD 400","date_qualification":"Vicús cultural horizon; objects undated.","date_basis":"catalogue_attribution","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"gentile2018_vicus_stone_plaques, Gentile 2018 fig. 15 printed p. 33; Walter Alva and BCRP, Cultura Vicús chronology","sources":[{"citation":"Margarita E. Gentile, “Placas zumbadoras y sogas sibilantes asociadas a las capacochacuna del volcan Llullaillaco,” El Futuro del Pasado 9 (2018):15–42, fig. 15 p. 33; p. 19 n. 9, after Pérez Bugallo (1993)","url":"https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/10366/148124/1/Placas_zumbadoras_y_sogas_sibilantes_aso.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20231120223643/https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/10366/148124/1/Placas_zumbadoras_y_sogas_sibilantes_aso.pdf"},{"citation":"Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, accession 87886, via Gentile (2018), fig. 15, p. 33"},{"citation":"Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, accession 87882, via Gentile (2018), fig. 15, p. 33"},{"citation":"Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, accession 87884, via Gentile (2018), fig. 15, p. 33"}],"source_citations":"Margarita E. Gentile, “Placas zumbadoras y sogas sibilantes asociadas a las capacochacuna del volcan Llullaillaco,” El Futuro del Pasado 9 (2018):15–42, fig. 15 p. 33; p. 19 n. 9, after Pérez Bugallo (1993); Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, accession 87886, via Gentile (2018), fig. 15, p. 33; Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, accession 87882, via Gentile (2018), fig. 15, p. 33; Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, accession 87884, via Gentile (2018), fig. 15, p. 33","source_display":"Margarita E. Gentile, “Placas zumbadoras y sogas sibilantes asociadas a las capacochacuna del volcan Llullaillaco,” El Futuro del Pasado 9 (2018):15–42, fig. 15 p. 33; p. 19 n. 9, after Pérez Bugallo (1993); Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, accession 87886, via Gentile (2018), fig. 15, p. 33; Museo Nacional de Arqueología…","date_citation_display":"Gentile 2018 fig. 15 printed p. 33; Walter Alva and BCRP, Cultura Vicús chronology","object_display":"Three flat stone plaques, each with a single hole near one edge, published together as one comparison set: 87886, nearly circular, 78.50 mm maximum diameter, 88 g; 87882, compact rectangular, 78 mm high and 50 mm wide, 60 g; 87884, trapezoidal, 78 mm high and 64 mm wide, 51 g. Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, Lima. No thickness is published for any of the three.","function_display":"Stone buzzing plaques, whirled on a cord for their sound, in Gentile's reading.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"vic","display_name":"Three Vicús stone buzzing plaques","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_rounds123_2026_10_30/gentile2018-003_vicus-exact-plate-clean.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_rounds123_2026_10_30/thumbs/gentile2018-003_vicus-exact-plate-clean.jpg","alt":"Photographs of a round reddish stone and two grey trapezoid stones, each with a hole near the top, captioned below.","credit":"Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú; in Gentile (2018), fig. 15","source_page":"https://gredos.usal.es/bitstream/10366/148124/1/Placas_zumbadoras_y_sogas_sibilantes_aso.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Three Vicús stone placas zumbadoras, each pierced near the top."},"slug":"gentile2018-003-vicus-culture-a-catalogue-attribution-with-no-findspot-published-for-any-o"}