{"id":"MUS2026-013","label":"Miskito Río Coco roarer, use unrecorded","people_or_site":"Miskito","country_current":"Nicaragua","historic_region":"Río Coco (Wanks River)","macroregion":"Mesoamerica / Central America","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Carved palm-wood bull-roarer on a cord.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smithsonian_nmai","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6e22d21a0-0509-4482-ad16-c905f95b9a3b","page_or_plate":"NMAI_142388 / catalog 13/2528","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A Miskito bull-roarer from the Río Coco — the Wanks, or Segovia, River that now divides Nicaragua from Honduras — held in the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. It was gathered by David E. Harrower, who spent two months in 1924 collecting among the Miskito, Sumu, and Rama for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, working out of Río Coco villages such as Asang and Krasa.","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, 13/2528 (Río Coco, Sang Sang and San Carlos, Nicaragua)","url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6e22d21a0-0509-4482-ad16-c905f95b9a3b"}],"source_citations":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 13/2528 (Río Coco, Sang Sang and San Carlos, Nicaragua)","source_display":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 13/2528 (Río Coco, Sang Sang and San Carlos, Nicaragua)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Carved palm-wood bull-roarer on a cord.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"miskito","display_name":"Miskito Río Coco roarer, use unrecorded","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-013_nmai_13-2528_miskito.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-013_nmai_13-2528_miskito_thumb.jpg","credit":"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (13/2528)","license":"CC0","source_page":"https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_142388","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Miskito palm-wood bullroarer, collected on the Río Coco in 1924."},"slug":"mus2026-013-miskito"}