No. THOMPSON1930-001
Mopan Maya San Antonio toy bullroarer
Belize · Toledo District · Mesoamerica · Central America
Play / practical
Source term: bull-roarer
San Antonio’s children claimed the bullroarer as their own: a small toy amid a village soundscape of musical bows, four-hole flutes, council drums, marimba, and tin-can dance rattles. In this Mopan Maya village of southern Belize the roarer was play, not ceremony.
A small bull-roarer is also used by children as a toy.
Thompson 1930, p. 102
Particulars
- Object
- A small bull-roarer.
- Function
- Children's toy
Source
J. Eric S. Thompson, Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras (Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series 17(2), 1930), pp. 29-30 and 101-102