{"id":"LOEB1929-035","label":"Paiute toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Paiute","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Great Basin","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"A child's toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"loeb1929","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82839/files/ucp025-004.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 284","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"representative coordinate for named people, place, or region in Loeb","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Across the western deserts the whirled slat could be weather magic: the Havasupai, San Carlos Apache and Papago swung it for rain, the Arapaho and Klamath for wind. Among the Paiute, as among the Gros Ventre far to the north, it was only a toy.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Edwin M. Loeb, Tribal Initiations and Secret Societies, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(3) (1929): 249–288, p. 284, citing Leslie Spier, Havasupai Ethnography, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 29(3) (1928), p. 290","url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82839/files/ucp025-004.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250411091854/https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82839/files/ucp025-004.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Edwin M. Loeb, Tribal Initiations and Secret Societies, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(3) (1929): 249–288, p. 284, citing Leslie Spier, Havasupai Ethnography, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 29(3) (1928), p. 290","source_display":"Edwin M. Loeb, Tribal Initiations and Secret Societies, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(3) (1929): 249–288, p. 284, citing Leslie Spier, Havasupai Ethnography, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 29(3) (1928), p. 290","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"A child's toy.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"paiute","display_name":"Paiute toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/NA-S1952-005_penn22610_467908.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/NA-S1952-005_penn22610_467908_thumb.jpg","alt":"Zuni wooden bullroarer 22610, with a narrow blade and long cord laid out beside it.","credit":"Courtesy of the Penn Museum, object 22610","license":"Penn Museum — educational/non-commercial use","source_page":"https://collections.penn.museum/collections/object/85942","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Zuni wooden bullroarer with its surviving cord, Penn Museum 22610.","pool_id":"american-west-zuni-corded","last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"loeb1929-035-paiute"}