{"id":"MUS2026-045","label":"Triangular Sanumá blade painted in yellow","people_or_site":"Sanumá","country_current":"Venezuela","historic_region":"Yanomami (Sanumá), upper Orinoco/Caura","macroregion":"South America / Guianas","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bull-roarer of the Sanumá, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (acc. 1981.33.75).","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"pitt_rivers","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39597","page_or_plate":"1981.33.75","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Sanumá language-area point in the uplands of southern Venezuela near the Brazilian border (Glottolog); an area anchor, not a village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A triangular wooden bull-roarer of the Sanumá, the northernmost of the Yanomami, painted in yellow pigment with a cross and dots on one face and triangles and dots on the other, notched at the tip and bound with plant-fibre cord. It was collected in southern Venezuela by the anthropologist Marcus Colchester around 1979 and 1980 and bought by the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1981.","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":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1981.33.75 (collected by Marcus Colchester among the Sanumá, 1979-1980)","url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39597","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39663"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1981.33.75 (collected by Marcus Colchester among the Sanumá, 1979-1980)","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1981.33.75 (collected by Marcus Colchester among the Sanumá, 1979-1980)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bull-roarer of the Sanumá, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (acc. 1981.33.75).","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"sanum","display_name":"Triangular Sanumá blade painted in yellow","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39597.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39597_thumb.jpg","alt":"Sanumá bullroarer in the Pitt Rivers Museum: a pale wooden blade widening from its corded narrow end to a flat broad end, painted with crossing brown strokes and groups of dots.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1981.33.75)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39597","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Sanumá bull-roarer, Pitt Rivers Museum."},"slug":"mus2026-045-sanuma"}