MUS2026-344 - museum specimen
Nivaclé pale Chaco blade
Paraguay - Guachalla, Pilcomayo region - South America
Function not recorded
Source term: Vinare
Living in the Gran Chaco around 1910, Erland Nordenskiöld watched for the bullroarer and hardly found it: among the Ashluslay — the Nivaclé — and their Choroti neighbours he saw it whirled only rarely, and only by children. In the Chaco it was chiefly a plaything. Fifteen and a half centimetres of pale, worn wood is what one of those blades looks like: the cord is gone, but the hole it ran through is not.
- Object
- A 15.8 cm pale wooden blade with a surviving terminal perforation; the cord is lost.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Source
- Världskulturmuseerna 1913.01.0300a; marked B.305; historic Ashluslay attribution
- Source location
- 1913.01.0300a
- Source confidence
- low Broad Pilcomayo/Guachalla anchor from the historical record.