{"id":"ARCTIC-002","label":"Mackenzie River mouth BM Am1929-0412-54","people_or_site":"Eskimo-Aleut / Mackenzie River mouth","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Northwest Territories / Mackenzie River mouth","macroregion":"North America / Arctic","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Carved leaf-shaped wooden bullroarer with notches down both sides","function_summary":"Western Arctic Inuit child's whizzing-toy (imigluta); no ritual significance per Murdoch","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"BM_AM1929_0412_54","source_type":"british_museum_object","source_url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am1929-0412-54","page_or_plate":"British Museum object record","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Mackenzie River mouth regional source anchor not British Museum location","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A leaf-shaped wooden blade, notched down both edges, collected near the mouth of the Mackenzie River and now in the British Museum. Among the Western Arctic Inuit it was a child's noisemaker: a thin board hung on a length of sinew braid and swung until it gave off a loud whizzing roar. John Murdoch, who gathered such toys at Point Barrow on the international polar expedition of 1881-83, recorded the name as ĭmĭglúta and was emphatic that the thing carried no ritual weight — he never saw one in adult hands, and the specimen he brought home had been made for sale by a lad about thirteen or fourteen years old.","pull_quote":"It is the well known “whizzing-stick” found among savages in so many widely distant parts of the world, and often used in religious ceremonies.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Murdoch 1892, Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition, p. 379","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"British Museum, object Am1929,0412.54","url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am1929-0412-54"},{"citation":"John Murdoch, Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition (1892), p. 379"}],"source_citations":"British Museum, object Am1929,0412.54; John Murdoch, Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition (1892), p. 379","source_display":"British Museum, object Am1929,0412.54; John Murdoch, Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition (1892), p. 379","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Carved leaf-shaped wooden bullroarer with notches down both sides","function_display":"Western Arctic Inuit child's whizzing-toy (imigluta); no ritual significance per Murdoch","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"eskimo aleut","display_name":"Mackenzie River mouth BM Am1929-0412-54","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATCH3-031.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATCH3-031_thumb.jpg","alt":"A Mackenzie River wooden bullroarer with repeated triangular notches along both edges and a small knob at its tapered end.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum, Am1929,0412.54","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am1929-0412-54","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Eskimo-Aleut bull-roarer, mouth of the Mackenzie River, NWT — British Museum, Am1929,0412.54."},"slug":"arctic-002-eskimo-aleut-mackenzie-river-mouth"}