{"id":"MUS2026-006","label":"Jemez roarer kept in silence","people_or_site":"Jemez (Walatowa)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico","macroregion":"North America / Southwest","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Carved wood and hide bull-roarer of the Jemez (Walatowa), NMAI catalog no. 9/4632, collected by the Indian Service teacher Albert B. Reagan probably in 1901-02 and sold by him to the Museum of the American Indian in 1919. The museum withholds the image as culturally sensitive.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smithsonian_nmai","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6701d7bb5-ba84-4175-a82d-6de13b5e3517","page_or_plate":"National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), catalog no. 9/4632 (EDAN record NMAI_102221)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Whirled on its cord, a bullroarer makes a low, carrying moan — and at Walatowa it is forbidden to photograph, record or even sketch a ceremony. This one survives as words alone: the National Museum of the American Indian withholds its picture. Albert Reagan, a government schoolteacher, probably collected it around 1901–1902 and sold it to the museum in 1919; his published study of Jemez dancing never mentions a bullroarer. When Elsie Clews Parsons gathered tales at Jemez in 1925, one narrator left his deliberately unfinished, so no outsider would ever hold the whole.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","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,"sources":[{"citation":"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, catalog no. 9/4632 (collected by Albert B. Reagan; purchased 1919)","url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6701d7bb5-ba84-4175-a82d-6de13b5e3517"},{"citation":"Albert B. Reagan, 'Dances of the Jemez Pueblo Indians,' Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 20 (1906): 241-272","url":"https://archive.org/details/jstor-3624668"},{"citation":"Elsie Clews Parsons, The Pueblo of Jemez (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925)","url":"https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_62894"}],"source_citations":"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, catalog no. 9/4632 (collected by Albert B. Reagan; purchased 1919); Albert B. Reagan, 'Dances of the Jemez Pueblo Indians,' Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 20 (1906): 241-272; Elsie Clews Parsons, The Pueblo of Jemez (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925)","source_display":"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, catalog no. 9/4632 (collected by Albert B. Reagan; purchased 1919); Albert B. Reagan, 'Dances of the Jemez Pueblo Indians,' Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 20 (1906): 241-272; Elsie Clews Parsons, The Pueblo of Jemez (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Carved wood and hide bull-roarer of the Jemez (Walatowa), NMAI catalog no. 9/4632, collected by the Indian Service teacher Albert B. Reagan probably in 1901-02 and sold by him to the Museum of the American Indian in 1919. The museum withholds the image as culturally sensitive.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"jemez","display_name":"Jemez roarer kept in silence","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/deep_12.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/deep_12_thumb.jpg","alt":"A pale Hopi wooden slat in Oslo, attached at one end to a long braided cord.","credit":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Etnografisk) (UEM29633/b)","license":"CC BY-SA","source_page":"https://api.dimu.org/artifact/uuid/83b81ea1-3b65-4e2d-96ab-8009bbcf04d1","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Hopi bullroarer in Oslo, a pale wooden slat on a long braided cord."},"slug":"mus2026-006-jemez-walatowa"}