{"id":"MUS2026-010","label":"Lenca roarer with no rite recorded","people_or_site":"Lenca","country_current":"El Salvador","historic_region":"Usulután, El Salvador","macroregion":"Mesoamerica / Central America","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bull-roarer of the Lenca, in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smithsonian_nmai","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6db2de4ae-49fa-47fd-ba51-a565bc18575d","page_or_plate":"NMAI_140531 / catalog 13/1157","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A Lenca bull-roarer from Estanzuelas in eastern El Salvador, gathered by the archaeologist Samuel K. Lothrop on the Museum of the American Indian's 1924 Central American expedition and now in the National Museum of the American Indian. The catalog fixes the object, the people, and the collector but records no ceremony or use, and the wider Lenca ethnographic record ties its documented ritual life to dances, drums, and flutes rather than to the whirled blade.","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":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 13/1157 (collected by Samuel K. Lothrop, Estanzuelas, Usulután, 1924)","url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6db2de4ae-49fa-47fd-ba51-a565bc18575d"}],"source_citations":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 13/1157 (collected by Samuel K. Lothrop, Estanzuelas, Usulután, 1924)","source_display":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 13/1157 (collected by Samuel K. Lothrop, Estanzuelas, Usulután, 1924)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bull-roarer of the Lenca, in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lenca","display_name":"Lenca roarer with no rite recorded","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-010_nmai_13-1157_lenca.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-010_nmai_13-1157_lenca_thumb.jpg","alt":"Lenca whip-style roarer from Estanzuelas: a small flat oval blade hangs by cord from the middle of a long bowed stick, with another loose cord at the stick’s end.","credit":"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (13/1157)","license":"Usage Conditions Apply (NMAI)","source_page":"https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_140531","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Lenca whip-style roarer from Estanzuelas, with a flat blade and bent stick."},"slug":"mus2026-010-lenca"}