NAMER-002 - museum specimen
Comcaac (Seri), Isla Tiburón
Mexico - Sonora - Isla Tiburon - North America
Function not recorded
Source term: Bullroarer
A carved bullroarer of wood and hide, made by the Comcaac (Seri) of Isla Tiburón, the large island in the Gulf of California off the Sonoran coast. It was collected on the island in 1924 by Edward H. Davis (1862-1951), a rancher and field collector working for the Museum of the American Indian, the New York institution whose collections later passed to the National Museum of the American Indian; it carries catalog number 12/9728. The museum filed it under Music and Sound and recorded its materials and carved construction, but noted no accompanying song, no rite, and no account of who made it, who spun it, or what it was for.
Collected in 1924 by Edward H. Davis (1862-1951, a rancher and field collector for MAI) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
National Museum of the American Indian, object record NMAI_139475 (catalog 12/9728), Collection History note
- Object
- Wood-and-hide bullroarer collected on Isla Tiburon in 1924 by Edward H. Davis; NMAI catalog 12/9728, record NMAI_139475.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Representative Isla Tiburon island anchor from the catalog place; not an exact findspot.
- Source location
- NMAI_139475 / catalog 12/9728