MUS2026-010 - museum specimen
Lenca bull-roarer (museum specimen)
Usulután, El Salvador - Mesoamerica - Central America
Function not recorded
Source term: bull-roarer
A Lenca bull-roarer from Estanzuelas in eastern El Salvador, gathered by the archaeologist Samuel K. Lothrop on the Museum of the American Indian's 1924 Central American expedition and now in the National Museum of the American Indian. The catalog fixes the object, the people, and the collector but records no ceremony or use, and the wider Lenca ethnographic record ties its documented ritual life to dances, drums, and flutes rather than to the whirled blade.
- Object
- Bull-roarer of the Lenca, in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - approximate culture/locality centroid
- Source location
- NMAI_140531 / catalog 13/1157