The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-017 - museum specimen

Quechan (Yuma)

United States - Lower Colorado River, Arizona - North America - Southwest

Function not recorded

A Zuni bull-roarer — a plain wooden paddle with its cord coiled beside it — in the Pitt Rivers Museum; the Quechan (Yuma) instrument of the...
Representative image. A Zuni bull-roarer — a plain wooden paddle with its cord coiled beside it — in the Pitt Rivers Museum; the Quechan (Yuma) instrument of the lower Colorado River documented here has not been photographed. © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1903.129.4.1) Image source

Source term: bull-roarer

A bull-roarer of the Quechan (Yuma), from the Lower Colorado River, held in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The record fixes the object but not its use: no particular Quechan rite is attached to this piece; the object itself is the only witness.

Bull-Roarer

Smithsonian NMNH record nmnhanthropology_8394213
Object
Bull-roarer of the Quechan (Yuma), in the collection of Smithsonian NMNH (NMNH Anthropology).
Function
Not recorded.
Map confidence
medium - approximate culture/locality centroid
Source location
NMNH record nmnhanthropology_8394213

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