{"id":"MUS2026-342","label":"Itonama Machupo long-cord blade","people_or_site":"Itonama","country_current":"Bolivia","historic_region":"Rio Machupo","macroregion":"South America / Bolivia","local_name":"","source_term":"Vinare","source_language":"Swedish","object_description":"A 30 cm narrow rectangular wooden blade with terminal perforation and a long surviving cord.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smvk_1915_01_1261","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/40471","page_or_plate":"1915.01.1261","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Rio Machupo anchor; collection point unresolved.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Erland Nordenskiöld carried this blade out of Itonama country in 1913-14, but not the reason for its roar. What survives is the rig itself: a narrow thirty-centimetre blade off the Rio Machupo, austere to the point of plainness, and a cord that runs on far beyond the wood, still attached. Most museum bullroarers lost that cord long ago.","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":"Världskulturmuseerna 1915.01.1261; Rio Machupo","url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/40471","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20221118115838/https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/40471"}],"source_citations":"Världskulturmuseerna 1915.01.1261; Rio Machupo","source_display":"Världskulturmuseerna 1915.01.1261; Rio Machupo","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A 30 cm narrow rectangular wooden blade with terminal perforation and a long surviving cord.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"itonama","display_name":"Itonama Machupo long-cord blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/MUS2026-342_smvk_1915-01-1261.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/thumbs/MUS2026-342_smvk_1915-01-1261_thumb.jpg","credit":"Statens museer för världskultur (1915.01.1261)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/40471","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Itonama blade and its long twisted cord.","last_modified":"2026-09-01"},"slug":"mus2026-342-itonama"}