{"id":"AUSIN-026","label":"Mount Margaret Hambly cat 173154","people_or_site":"Mount Margaret","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Goldfields / Mount Margaret","macroregion":"Australia / Western Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bull-roarer painted with white circles, from Mount Margaret.","function_summary":"Western Australian (Goldfields) bull-roarer whirled to warn women and uninitiated boys away from sacred ceremonies, and taught at male initiation as the voice of a being more than human.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"HAMBLY_MOUNT_MARGARET_173154","source_type":"publication_catalog_pdf","source_url":"https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/m0043159.pdf","page_or_plate":"Hambly 1936, p. 4: Fig. 11 Bull-roarer with painted white circles, Mount Margaret, Cat. No. 173154","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Mount Margaret regional anchor","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Plate I of his 1936 Field Museum leaflet Primitive Hunters of Australia, Wilfrid Hambly figured a bull-roarer marked with painted white circles, collected at Mount Margaret in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, in Wongatha country, and catalogued as No. 173154. Hambly grouped such objects with the churinga, the flat sacred boards, and gave their use: the noise made when the board was whirled rapidly round the head warned women and uninitiated boys to keep away from the site where sacred ceremonies were being held, and before their initiation boys were taught that the same sound was the voice of a being more than human.","pull_quote":"No woman, child, or uninitiated boy is allowed to visit the hiding place of these sacred things, which are concealed by elders of the tribes.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Hambly 1936, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum Anthropology Leaflet 32):25","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum Anthropology Leaflet 32, 1936), p. 4, fig. 11, and p. 25; Field Museum cat. 173154","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":"W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum Anthropology Leaflet 32, 1936), p. 4, fig. 11, and p. 25; Field Museum cat. 173154","source_display":"W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum Anthropology Leaflet 32, 1936), p. 4, fig. 11, and p. 25; Field Museum cat. 173154","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bull-roarer painted with white circles, from Mount Margaret.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mount margaret","display_name":"Mount Margaret Hambly cat 173154","image":{"full":"assets/objects/AUSIN-026_hambly1936_fig11.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/AUSIN-026_hambly1936_fig11_thumb.jpg","alt":"Hambly’s printed plate of the Mount Margaret wooden bullroarer, its long blade marked with pale circles and cross-like forms.","credit":"W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum of Natural History, 1936), plate I, fig. 11","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":"Hambly's plate of the Field Museum's Mount Margaret bull-roarer."},"slug":"ausin-026-mount-margaret"}