{"id":"MUS2026-109","label":"Pagai's paired bullroarers","people_or_site":"Mentawai","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Pagai Islands, Mentawai Islands","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Indonesia","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Two bullroarer specimens from the Pagai Islands, Smithsonian NMNH E221881-0.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smithsonian","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b0c69735-2a63-4d4f-bdf6-a089dd53d1cd","page_or_plate":"nmnhanthropology_8364845 / ark:/65665/3b0c69735-2a63-4d4f-bdf6-a089dd53d1cd","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On Pagai, wandering souls had to be called home for the punen. After the invocation, drummers decked the gong with flowers, parents and children crowned themselves too, and when the priest struck the gong everyone filed into the uma. These two bullroarers came from the same islands in 1903; what they were swung for went unrecorded.","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 Natural History, Department of Anthropology, E221881-0 (two specimens), Pagai Islands, Mentawai; gift of William L. Abbott, accessioned 1903.","url":"http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b0c69735-2a63-4d4f-bdf6-a089dd53d1cd"},{"citation":"E. M. Loeb, “Mentawei Religious Cult,” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(2) (1929), pp. 203–204, 207–208.","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp025-003.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013021224/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp025-003.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, E221881-0 (two specimens), Pagai Islands, Mentawai; gift of William L. Abbott, accessioned 1903.; E. M. Loeb, “Mentawei Religious Cult,” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(2) (1929), pp. 203–204, 207–208.","source_display":"Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, E221881-0 (two specimens), Pagai Islands, Mentawai; gift of William L. Abbott, accessioned 1903.; E. M. Loeb, “Mentawei Religious Cult,” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(2) (1929), pp. 203–204, 207–208.","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two bullroarer specimens from the Pagai Islands, Smithsonian NMNH E221881-0.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mentawai","display_name":"Pagai's paired bullroarers","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-109_mus2026-109-pagai-paired-bullroarers.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-109_mus2026-109-pagai-paired-bullroarers_thumb.jpg","alt":"Two wooden bullroarers from the Pagai Islands: the upper broad blade has crossed V-shaped incisions, while the narrower lower blade has toothed edges; cords trail from both.","credit":"Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, USNM E221881-0","license":"Rights not determined by Smithsonian; rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b0c69735-2a63-4d4f-bdf6-a089dd53d1cd","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Two wooden bullroarers from the Pagai Islands, Smithsonian E221881-0."},"slug":"mus2026-109-mentawai"}