{"id":"MASSEY1961-001","label":"San Julio Basin ironwood bullroarer","people_or_site":"Site BC 60, cave in the San Julio Basin","country_current":"Mexico","historic_region":"San Julio Basin / Baja California Sur","macroregion":"North America","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer / wooden bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Long oval ironwood blade, 21.5 cm, double-convex or lenticular in cross section; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology 3-10308, accession 881 (catalogued in 1961 as the Robert H. Lowie Museum).","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"massey_osborne1961_hearst_3_10308","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30385/pg30385-images.html","page_or_plate":"Massey & Osborne 1961, p. 344 and footnote 2; Hearst 3-10308, accession 881","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Comondú town anchor; the cave lies about five miles east in the San Julio Basin, and the findspot is not published.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A blade of ironwood twenty-one and a half centimetres long, oval in plan and swelling to a lens in section - the conventional shape, as Massey and Osborne described it - lay on the floor of a cave in the San Julio Basin, east of Comondú in the Baja desert, when Carl Sauer and William Massey collected it in the summer of 1946. The Hearst Museum's catalogue calls it what it looks like: Bullroarer. Nothing dates the object; it came off the surface rather than out of a layer, so 1946 marks only the year it was picked up.","pull_quote":"This wooden bull-roarer has a conventional shape; it is a long oval-shaped piece of hardwood which is double-convex or lenticular in cross section and has a length of 21.5 cm.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Massey & Osborne 1961:344","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"Undated","date_qualification":"Surface find; archaeological age unknown.","date_basis":"undated_terminus","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"MASSEY_OSBORNE_1961_BAJA_BURIAL_CAVE, p. 344 and n. 2; Hearst 3-10308 catalogue card","sources":[{"citation":"William C. Massey and Carolyn M. Osborne, A Burial Cave in Baja California: The Palmer Collection, 1887, Anthropological Records 16(8) (1961), p. 344 and footnote 2; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, object 3-10308, accession 881","url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30385/pg30385-images.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260308064053/https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30385/pg30385-images.html"}],"source_citations":"William C. Massey and Carolyn M. Osborne, A Burial Cave in Baja California: The Palmer Collection, 1887, Anthropological Records 16(8) (1961), p. 344 and footnote 2; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, object 3-10308, accession 881","source_display":"William C. Massey and Carolyn M. Osborne, A Burial Cave in Baja California: The Palmer Collection, 1887, Anthropological Records 16(8) (1961), p. 344 and footnote 2; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, object 3-10308, accession 881","date_citation_display":"Massey Osborne 1961 Baja Burial Cave, p. 344 and n. 2; Hearst 3-10308 catalogue card","object_display":"Long oval ironwood blade, 21.5 cm, double-convex or lenticular in cross section; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology 3-10308, accession 881 (catalogued in 1961 as the Robert H. Lowie Museum).","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"site","display_name":"San Julio Basin ironwood bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/MUS2026-112_khm_uem41249a.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/thumbs/MUS2026-112_khm_uem41249a_thumb.jpg","alt":"A plain wooden slat on its long cord, from Mesbilja in Chiapas, Mexico.","credit":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM41249/a; photo Kirsten Helgeland","license":"CC BY-SA","source_page":"https://api.dimu.org/artifact/uuid/f7880df9-00e8-459b-b639-d29ea5291551","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A bullroarer from Mesbilja, Chiapas","pool_id":"auto-review_2026_07_18--MUS2026-112_khm_uem41249a","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/MASSEY1961-001_hearst_3-10308_catalog_card.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MASSEY1961-001_hearst_3-10308_catalog_card_thumb.jpg","credit":"Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, catalogue card 3-10308","license":"© Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley","source_page":"https://portal.hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/catalog/a154baee-f04a-4809-9dcd-1d0cf9f1ac72","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Hearst catalogue card for ironwood bullroarer 3-10308 from Site BC 60 in the San Julio Basin."}]},"slug":"massey1961-001-site-bc-60-cave-in-the-san-julio-basin"}