{"id":"AUSMAIN-008","label":"Bangerang (Pangerang)","people_or_site":"Bangerang (Pangerang)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Murray-Goulburn River, northern Victoria and southern NSW (Cummeragunja)","macroregion":"Australia / Southeast","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"","object_description":"Rounded engraved wooden blade with one terminal hole and white cord, 19 x 3.1 x 0.4 cm; made by Bangerang Elder John 'Sandy' Atkinson AM in 1988; Museums Victoria SH 990088 (Australian Children's Folklore Collection).","function_summary":"Hand-crafted as a Bangerang play/teaching object for the children's folklore collection.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mining2026","source_type":"museum","source_url":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/254024","page_or_plate":"SH 990088","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate territory centroid (mining 2026)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"This wooden bull-roarer, catalogued by Museums Victoria under the alternative name \"wind toy,\" was made in 1988 by John \"Sandy\" Atkinson, a Bangerang Elder born in 1932 at the Cummeragunja Reserve on the New South Wales bank of the Murray River. In 1983 Atkinson was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his service to Aboriginal arts; he had earlier driven the creation of the Bangerang Cultural Centre at Shepparton, often called Australia's first Aboriginal \"keeping place,\" which opened in 1982. He donated this piece to the Australian Children's Folklore Collection, where it is held as a child's wind toy rather than a ceremonial object.","pull_quote":"Made by John 'Sandy' Atkinson in 1988 and donated by him to the Australian Children's Folklore Collection.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Museums Victoria, Bullroarer SH 990088 (Australian Children's Folklore Collection)","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":"Museums Victoria","url":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/254024","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260712031240/https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/254024"}],"source_citations":"Museums Victoria","source_display":"Museums Victoria","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rounded engraved wooden blade with one terminal hole and white cord, 19 x 3.1 x 0.4 cm; made by Bangerang Elder John 'Sandy' Atkinson AM in 1988; Museums Victoria SH 990088 (Australian Children's Folklore Collection).","function_display":"Hand-crafted as a Bangerang play/teaching object for the children's folklore collection.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bangerang","display_name":"Bangerang (Pangerang)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/AUSMAIN-008_mim_1988-010-03_peer_boor_egah.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/AUSMAIN-008_mim_1988-010-03_peer_boor_egah_thumb.jpg","alt":"Peer boor egah, 24.7 × 4.3 cm — a leaf blade pierced at the tip, cut with chevrons.","credit":"© KMKG-MRAH — Musée des Instruments de Musique, Brussels, 1988.010-03; “Peer boor egah”, culture recorded only as Aboriginal, made in Australia before 1988. Regional support for the northern Victorian name; the Bangerang object itself is Museums Victoria SH 990088, of which there is no photograph.","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://carmentis.be/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=95438&viewType=detailView&lang=en","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Peer boor egah, 24.7 × 4.3 cm — a leaf blade pierced at the tip, cut with chevrons.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/AUSMAIN-008_mim_1988-010-02_peer_boor_egah.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/AUSMAIN-008_mim_1988-010-02_peer_boor_egah_thumb.jpg","alt":"A narrow wooden bullroarer with pale diagonal line patterns, red transverse bands and a spun cord tied through its end hole.","credit":"© KMKG-MRAH — Musée des Instruments de Musique, Brussels, 1988.010-02; “Peer boor egah”, culture recorded as Aboriginal, made in Australia before 1988.","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://carmentis.be/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=95437&viewType=detailView&lang=en","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A second, 25.6 × 4 cm, its spun cord still tied through the terminal hole."},{"full":"assets/objects/AUSMAIN-008_mim_1988-010-01_peer_boor_egah.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/AUSMAIN-008_mim_1988-010-01_peer_boor_egah_thumb.jpg","credit":"© KMKG-MRAH — Musée des Instruments de Musique, Brussels, 1988.010-01; “Peer boor egah”, culture not recorded, made in Australia before 1988.","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://carmentis.be/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=95436&viewType=detailView&lang=en","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The longest at 57.6 × 4.9 cm: a plain blade, pointed at both ends."}]},"slug":"ausmain-008-bangerang-pangerang"}