{"id":"THOMPSON1930-001","label":"Mopan Maya San Antonio toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Mopan Maya","country_current":"Belize","historic_region":"Toledo District","macroregion":"Mesoamerica / Central America","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A small bull-roarer.","function_summary":"Children's toy","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"thompson1930_mopan","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://archive.org/download/ethnologyofmayas172thom/ethnologyofmayas172thom.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 102","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"San Antonio village anchor","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"San Antonio’s children claimed the bullroarer as their own: a small toy amid a village soundscape of musical bows, four-hole flutes, council drums, marimba, and tin-can dance rattles. In this Mopan Maya village of southern Belize the roarer was play, not ceremony.","pull_quote":"A small bull-roarer is also used by children as a toy.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Thompson 1930, p. 102","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":"J. Eric S. Thompson, Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras (Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series 17(2), 1930), pp. 29-30 and 101-102","url":"https://archive.org/download/ethnologyofmayas172thom/ethnologyofmayas172thom.pdf"}],"source_citations":"J. Eric S. Thompson, Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras (Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series 17(2), 1930), pp. 29-30 and 101-102","source_display":"J. Eric S. Thompson, Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras (Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series 17(2), 1930), pp. 29-30 and 101-102","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A small bull-roarer.","function_display":"Children's toy","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mopan maya","display_name":"Mopan Maya San Antonio toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-029.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-029_thumb.jpg","credit":"Statens museer for varldskultur / Etnografiska museet (1900.03.0493)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1019244","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Pipil bullroarer from Nahuizalco, El Salvador.","pool_id":"mesoamerica-pipil"},"slug":"thompson1930-001-mopan-maya"}