{"id":"WHITLEY2022-001","label":"Lhayialh, caller of the winds","people_or_site":"Wichí, Santa Victoria Este II (Mawó Mendoza)","country_current":"Argentina","historic_region":"Santa Victoria Este, Rivadavia, Salta","macroregion":"South America / Gran Chaco","local_name":"Lhayialh","source_term":"caller of the winds; bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A delicately carved wooden blade shaped like a slightly twisted leaf, on a long string.","function_summary":"Traditionally used by Wichí shamans to call the four winds into conference in times of drought; sounded by Mawó Mendoza in recordings made with Duncan Whitley in 2016.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"whitley2022_caller_of_the_winds","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://wordsfromthebirds.uk/2022/06/27/the-caller-of-the-winds/","page_or_plate":"blog post, paragraphs on the 10-day residence; Axis background notes","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Santa Victoria Este town, Salta (Nominatim); the residency and recordings were in Santa Victoria Este II and the surrounding monte.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In drought, a Wichí shaman would whirl the caller of the winds to summon the four winds into conference. Mawó Mendoza's Lhayialh is a delicately carved wooden leaf, slightly twisted, swinging on a long string. In the savannah scrub around Santa Victoria Este, birds of many kinds seem to answer it exactly as they answer the wind rising and falling.","pull_quote":"call the four winds into conference","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Duncan Whitley, 'The caller of the winds,' Words from the Birds (2022)","term_gloss":"Lhayialh: the Wichí name for the caller of the winds.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Duncan Whitley, 'The caller of the winds,' Words from the Birds, 27 June 2022","url":"https://wordsfromthebirds.uk/2022/06/27/the-caller-of-the-winds/"},{"citation":"Duncan Whitley, Caller of the Winds (sound work, 2023), Axis","url":"https://axisweb.org/artwork/caller-of-the-winds"}],"source_citations":"Duncan Whitley, 'The caller of the winds,' Words from the Birds, 27 June 2022; Duncan Whitley, Caller of the Winds (sound work, 2023), Axis","source_display":"Duncan Whitley, 'The caller of the winds,' Words from the Birds, 27 June 2022; Duncan Whitley, Caller of the Winds (sound work, 2023), Axis","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A delicately carved wooden blade shaped like a slightly twisted leaf, on a long string.","function_display":"Traditionally used by Wichí shamans to call the four winds into conference in times of drought; sounded by Mawó Mendoza in recordings made with Duncan Whitley in 2016.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wich","display_name":"Lhayialh, caller of the winds","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":true,"caption":"The pale blade, inked 'B.305' (SMVK 1913.01.0300a)","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest2--MUS2026-344_smvk_1913-01-0300a","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"whitley2022-001-wichi-santa-victoria-este-ii-mawo-mendoza"}