{"id":"AUSIN-025","label":"Gascoyne Mooryumkarr spirit-chaser","people_or_site":"Gascoyne region","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Gascoyne","macroregion":"Australia / Western Australia","local_name":"Mooryumkarr","source_term":"Mooryumkarr / bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Incised oval wooden Mooryumkarr on a human-hair cord, photographed at the 1886 Colonial Exhibition; a second cross-hatched Gascoyne bullroarer is Field Museum catalog 173152.","function_summary":"Giglioli glossed Mooryumkarr as a spirit-chaser; no specific rite is recorded for either Gascoyne object.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"HAMBLY_GASCOYNE_173152","source_type":"publication_catalog_pdf","source_url":"https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/m0043159.pdf","page_or_plate":"Giglioli 1886 handwritten caption, object 3; Pettazzoni 1911:257 n. 1; Hambly 1936 Fig. 10","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Gascoyne regional anchor near Carnarvon","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At the mouth of the Gascoyne, an incised oval board on a human-hair cord was called Mooryumkarr — \"spirit-chaser.\" It travelled to London for the 1886 Colonial Exhibition with its cord still attached and its name written beneath it. A second Gascoyne blade, dense with cross-hatching, later reached Chicago's Field Museum.","pull_quote":"Mooryumkarr (scaccia-spiriti)","pull_quote_translation":"Mooryumkarr (spirit-chaser)","pull_quote_cite":"Giglioli, handwritten caption to the Western Australian objects photographed at the 1886 Colonial Exhibition, object 3","term_gloss":"Mooryumkarr: historical Gascoyne name; Giglioli glossed it in Italian as scaccia-spiriti, ‘spirit-chaser.’","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Giglioli, handwritten caption to the Western Australian objects at the 1886 Colonial Exhibition, object 3; R. Pettazzoni, ‘Un rombo australiano,’ Archivio per l'antropologia e la etnologia 41 (1911), p. 257 n. 1 (Giglioli collection no. 50); W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum, 1936), Plate I, fig. 10 (Field Museum cat. 173152)","url":"https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/m0043159.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240705095551/https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/m0043159.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Giglioli, handwritten caption to the Western Australian objects at the 1886 Colonial Exhibition, object 3; R. Pettazzoni, ‘Un rombo australiano,’ Archivio per l'antropologia e la etnologia 41 (1911), p. 257 n. 1 (Giglioli collection no. 50); W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum, 1936), Plate I, fig. 10 (Field Museum cat. 173152)","source_display":"Giglioli, handwritten caption to the Western Australian objects at the 1886 Colonial Exhibition, object 3; R. Pettazzoni, ‘Un rombo australiano,’ Archivio per l'antropologia e la etnologia 41 (1911), p. 257 n. 1 (Giglioli collection no. 50); W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum, 1936), Plate I, fig. 10 (Field Museum cat. 173152)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Incised oval wooden Mooryumkarr on a human-hair cord, photographed at the 1886 Colonial Exhibition; a second cross-hatched Gascoyne bullroarer is Field Museum catalog 173152.","function_display":"Giglioli glossed Mooryumkarr as a spirit-chaser; no specific rite is recorded for either Gascoyne object.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"gascoyne","display_name":"Gascoyne Mooryumkarr spirit-chaser","image":{"full":"assets/objects/AUSIN-025_hambly1936_fig10.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/AUSIN-025_hambly1936_fig10_thumb.jpg","alt":"Gascoyne bullroarer, a dark, blunt-ended blade with dense crosshatched surface marks (fig. 10).","credit":"W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum of Natural History, 1936), plate I, fig. 10","license":"Published 1936 (US); no copyright renewal found (Stanford Copyright Renewal Database) — treated as public domain","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/primitivehunters32hambl","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The second Gascoyne blade, dense with cross-hatching, now in Chicago's Field Museum.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/AUSIN-025_giglioli1886_mooryumkarr.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/AUSIN-025_giglioli1886_mooryumkarr_thumb.jpg","credit":"Enrico H. Giglioli, Western Australian objects at the Colonial Exhibition, London (1886)","license":"Public domain","source_page":"https://aboriginalarchivesitaly.com/digital-heritage/photo-aboriginal-cultural-objects-possibly-western-australia","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Giglioli’s 1886 plate of Western Australian objects; Mooryumkarr is no. 3."}]},"slug":"ausin-025-gascoyne-region"}