{"id":"MUS2026-344","label":"Nivaclé pale Chaco blade","people_or_site":"Nivaclé; historic Ashluslay label","country_current":"Paraguay","historic_region":"Guachalla, Pilcomayo region","macroregion":"South America / Paraguay","local_name":"","source_term":"Vinare","source_language":"Swedish","object_description":"A 15.8 cm pale wooden blade with a surviving terminal perforation; the cord is lost.","function_summary":"A children's plaything: Nordenskiöld, who collected this blade on the Pilcomayo in 1908-09, saw the bullroarer among the Ashluslay and Choroti only rarely and only as a toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smvk_1913_01_0300a","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/15376","page_or_plate":"1913.01.0300a","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Pilcomayo/Guachalla anchor from the historical record.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Living in the Gran Chaco around 1910, Erland Nordenskiöld watched for the bullroarer and hardly found it: among the Ashluslay — the Nivaclé — and their Choroti neighbours he saw it whirled only rarely, and only by children. In the Chaco it was chiefly a plaything. Nearly sixteen centimetres of pale, worn wood is what one of those blades looks like: the cord is gone, but the hole it ran through is not.","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":"Världskulturmuseerna 1913.01.0300a; Erland Nordenskiöld, Indianerleben: El Gran Chaco (Südamerika) (Leipzig: Albert Bonnier, 1912), p. 70","url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/15376","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20221207095521/https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/15376"}],"source_citations":"Världskulturmuseerna 1913.01.0300a; Erland Nordenskiöld, Indianerleben: El Gran Chaco (Südamerika) (Leipzig: Albert Bonnier, 1912), p. 70","source_display":"Världskulturmuseerna 1913.01.0300a; Erland Nordenskiöld, Indianerleben: El Gran Chaco (Südamerika) (Leipzig: Albert Bonnier, 1912), p. 70","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A 15.8 cm pale wooden blade with a surviving terminal perforation; the cord is lost.","function_display":"A children's plaything: Nordenskiöld, who collected this blade on the Pilcomayo in 1908-09, saw the bullroarer among the Ashluslay and Choroti only rarely and only as a toy.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"nivacl","display_name":"Nivaclé pale Chaco blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/MUS2026-344_smvk_1913-01-0300a.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/thumbs/MUS2026-344_smvk_1913-01-0300a_thumb.jpg","credit":"Statens museer för världskultur (1913.01.0300a)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-vkm/web/object/15376","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The pale blade itself, inked 'B.305' (SMVK 1913.01.0300a).","last_modified":"2026-09-01"},"slug":"mus2026-344-nivacle-historic-ashluslay-label"}