{"id":"MUS2026-017","label":"Quechan roarer, a recent arrival","people_or_site":"Quechan (Yuma)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Lower Colorado River, Arizona","macroregion":"North America / Southwest","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bull-roarer of the Quechan (Yuma), in the collection of Smithsonian NMNH (NMNH Anthropology).","function_summary":"Not recorded for this specimen; Quechan testimony of the mid-1930s reported the bullroarer as a recent arrival among the Yuma, used as a toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smithsonian_nmnh","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/367e81e4b","page_or_plate":"NMNH record nmnhanthropology_8394213","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A bull-roarer of the Quechan (Yuma), from the Lower Colorado River, held in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. No use is attached to this piece, but Pat Miguel, a Yuma man questioned in the mid-1930s, remembered the instrument as a recent arrival among his people — a toy, not a ceremony's voice.","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":"Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, E325201-0, Quechan, Yuma Reservation, Arizona; collected by Frances Densmore, accessioned 1923","url":"https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/367e81e4b-8fcc-46b0-ba38-ea0e0305d23a"},{"citation":"Philip Drucker, “Culture Element Distributions: V—Southern California,” Anthropological Records 1(1) (1937), pp. 5, 25","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar001-002.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20230107213631/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar001-002.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, E325201-0, Quechan, Yuma Reservation, Arizona; collected by Frances Densmore, accessioned 1923; Philip Drucker, “Culture Element Distributions: V—Southern California,” Anthropological Records 1(1) (1937), pp. 5, 25","source_display":"Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, E325201-0, Quechan, Yuma Reservation, Arizona; collected by Frances Densmore, accessioned 1923; Philip Drucker, “Culture Element Distributions: V—Southern California,” Anthropological Records 1(1) (1937), pp. 5, 25","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bull-roarer of the Quechan (Yuma), in the collection of Smithsonian NMNH (NMNH Anthropology).","function_display":"Not recorded for this specimen; Quechan testimony of the mid-1930s reported the bullroarer as a recent arrival among the Yuma, used as a toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"quechan","display_name":"Quechan roarer, a recent arrival","image":{"full":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/NA-S1952-010_wereldmuseum_rv362-38.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/thumbs/NA-S1952-010_wereldmuseum_rv362-38_thumb.jpg","alt":"Tohono O’odham Wihoewiketeke with a painted blade, long fibre cord, and wooden whirling handle.","credit":"Wereldmuseum / NMVW (RV-362-38)","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/653071","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Tohono O’odham Wihoewiketeke with painted blade, cord, and whirling handle.","pool_id":"auto-expansion_2026_07--NA-S1952-010_wereldmuseum_rv362-38"},"slug":"mus2026-017-quechan-yuma"}