{"id":"AUSMAIN-014","label":"Butchulla (Badtjala)","people_or_site":"Butchulla (Badtjala)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"K'gari (Fraser Island) and adjacent Hervey Bay coast","macroregion":"Australia / Southeast Queensland","local_name":"Bon'da'ban","source_term":"Bon'da'ban","source_language":"Butchulla / English","object_description":"Butchulla bullroarer, described in the language dictionary as a ceremonial noise maker for men only.","function_summary":"Ceremonial noise maker; the dictionary marks the bullroarer as men only.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"mining2026","source_type":"language_dictionary","source_url":"https://butchullalanguageherveybay.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Butchulla-Mini-Dictionary-V4.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 7, entry Bon'da'ban","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate territory centroid (mining 2026)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Butchulla men kept the bullroarer's roar to themselves. Their dictionaries record it as Bon'da'ban, a ceremonial noise-maker marked men only, a sound barred to the women and children of K'gari (Fraser Island). It belonged to the same closed men's ceremonial life as the bu'rul, the major man-making rite that outsiders learned to call a bora, in which initiated men led boys out of childhood.","pull_quote":"Bullroarer (ceremonial noise maker, men only)","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation, Butchulla Mini Dictionary V4 (2021), p. 7, entry Bon'da'ban","term_gloss":"Bon'da'ban / Bundanaba / Bondaban: bullroarer; ceremonial noise maker, men only.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation, Butchulla Mini Dictionary V4 (2021)","url":"https://butchullalanguageherveybay.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Butchulla-Mini-Dictionary-V4.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20241008061522/https://butchullalanguageherveybay.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Butchulla-Mini-Dictionary-V4.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation, Butchulla Mini Dictionary V4 (2021)","source_display":"Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation, Butchulla Mini Dictionary V4 (2021)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Butchulla bullroarer, described in the language dictionary as a ceremonial noise maker for men only.","function_display":"Ceremonial noise maker; the dictionary marks the bullroarer as men only.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"butchulla","display_name":"Butchulla (Badtjala)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/wereldmuseum_135.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/wereldmuseum_135_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long wooden blade with faint concentric-circle and zigzag carving, its cord attached at one end.","credit":"Wereldmuseum / NMVW (acc. TM-2562-4)","license":"","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/83756","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Wooden bullroarer incised with concentric circles and zigzag bands, its cord still attached.","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--wereldmuseum_135"},"slug":"ausmain-014-butchulla-badtjala"}