EXH2026-037 - archaeological find
Bahia de Los Angeles cave find
Mexico - Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California - North America
Archaeological datec. 1500–1800 AD
Function not recorded
Source term: Bull-roarer (?)
From a burial cave at Bahía de los Ángeles came a remarkable slat of polished dark wood: 23.5 centimetres long, concave on both faces, pierced at one end, and inlaid with black-filled grooves and fragments of Olivella shell. Its excavators tentatively called it a bullroarer. The disturbed cave has no secure date; its contents broadly resemble the local Borjeño tradition around European contact, but the slat itself cannot be dated more closely.
This artifact has been tentatively called a "bull-roarer" because no other purpose can be conjectured.
Massey & Osborne, A Burial Cave in Baja California (Anthropological Records 16:8, 1961)
- Object
- Wooden object 23.5 cm catalogued 'Bull-roarer (?)', USNM 139565, from a burial cave.
- Function
- Not established; the excavators' own identification carries a question mark.
- Map confidence
- low - Bahia de Los Angeles
- Source location
- Massey & Osborne 1961, p. 344