{"id":"NAGA-006","label":"Lhota Okotso threm-threm crop-season boys' toy","people_or_site":"Lhota / Okotso village","country_current":"India","historic_region":"Naga Hills / present Nagaland","macroregion":"South Asia / Northeast India","local_name":"threm-threm (thren-threm)","source_term":"threm-threm","source_language":"English","object_description":"A thin, blunt-ended wooden slat 25 cm long, marked with burnt lines and strung with bark; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, acc. 1928.69.320 (J. P. Mills coll.).","function_summary":"Chiefly used while crops are growing; no beliefs recorded","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"NAGA_COL51_OKOTSO_THREM_THREM","source_type":"cambridge_naga_database","source_url":"https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/coll/51/records/detail/coll/from_500.html","page_or_plate":"C667 | PRM acc. 1928.69.320","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Okotso village/locality anchor, Wokha; TERI/Nagaland CCA report (2015), p.63, locality coordinate rounded to 0.001°, corroborated by NESAC (2010) Fig.12 village map; not an exact specimen findspot or museum location.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A 25-centimetre bull-roarer from the Lhota Naga village of Okotso, now in the Pitt Rivers Museum. The Lhota called it threm-threm. It was a boy's toy, not used by girls, swung chiefly while the crops were growing, with no beliefs attached to it. Mills's monograph The Lhota Nagas, whose acknowledgements thank Etsisao and Chongsemo of Okotso, never mentions it.","pull_quote":"Threm-threm, bull-roarer, a boy's toy, not used by girls. Chiefly used while crops are growing; no beliefs concerning it.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum catalogue record, Lhota bull-roarer from Okotso (Cambridge Naga Database, coll. 51)","term_gloss":"threm-threm: Lhota Naga name for the bull-roarer","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_taboo","agriculture","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"University of Cambridge, The Nagas database, collection 51, record C667, Lhota bull-roarer from Okotso","url":"https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/coll/51/records/detail/coll/from_500.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013024023/https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/coll/51/records/detail/coll/from_500.html"},{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, object 1928.69.320","url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39617","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39663"}],"source_citations":"University of Cambridge, The Nagas database, collection 51, record C667, Lhota bull-roarer from Okotso; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, object 1928.69.320","source_display":"University of Cambridge, The Nagas database, collection 51, record C667, Lhota bull-roarer from Okotso; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, object 1928.69.320","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A thin, blunt-ended wooden slat 25 cm long, marked with burnt lines and strung with bark; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, acc. 1928.69.320 (J. P. Mills coll.).","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lhota","display_name":"Lhota Okotso threm-threm crop-season boys' toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39617.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_10_03/NAGA-006_linked_primary_thumb.jpg","alt":"Lhota Naga threm-threm bullroarer from Okotso village, PRM 1928.69.320: a slim flat blade with dark crossed lines and cord wound around one end.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1928.69.320)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39617","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Lhota Naga threm-threm bull-roarer, Okotso village. PRM 1928.69.320.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/BATCH3-008.jpeg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATCH3-008_thumb.jpg","alt":"Lhota Naga threm-threm from Okotso: a narrow pale slat with dark cord bindings near one end and a cord tied at the other.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1928.69.320); Cambridge Naga Exploratour","license":"In copyright — Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/objects/c667.html","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Lhota Naga threm-threm bull-roarer, Okotso village. PRM 1928.69.320."}]},"slug":"naga-006-lhota-okotso-village"}