{"id":"AUSMAIN-022","label":"Mount Barnett bullroarer (SMVK)","people_or_site":"Mount Barnett, Kimberley","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Western Australia / Kimberley / Mount Barnett","macroregion":"Australia / Kimberley","local_name":"","source_term":"vinare, bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Five Mount Barnett bullroarers, SMVK 1912.01.1025-.1029; .1025 is red-painted wood with faint black bands and human-hair cord, and the set is marked secret/sacred.","function_summary":"Secret and sacred: Kim Akerman identified the Mount Barnett set as such in his 2004 review of the Stockholm collections. What ceremony it served was never recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"SMVK_CARLOTTA_1039361","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1039361","page_or_plate":"SMVK 1912.01.1025-.1029; general catalog pp. 246-247","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Mount Barnett / Kimberley anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Five bullroarers left Mount Barnett, in the Kimberley of Western Australia, together; this one is red-painted wood with faint black bands, held by Sweden's Etnografiska museet (SMVK) as object 1039361. The set was collected on Eric Mjöberg's Swedish expedition of 1910–11, on which Yngve Laurell served as ethnographer, and by 1912 it was in Stockholm under a Swedish name: \"Vinare, bullroarer\" — vinare from vina, to whine or whizz, a Swedish word and not a Kimberley one. Nobody wrote down who made these, or what they were for. In 2004 the Kimberley material-culture specialist Kim Akerman worked through the Stockholm collections and identified the Mount Barnett set as secret and sacred, and the museum keeps photographs of such ritual objects out of its public database.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"SMVK/Carlotta object 1039361; SMVK general catalog pp. 246-247, accessions 1912.01.1025-.1029","url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1039361","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013000929/https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1039361"}],"source_citations":"SMVK/Carlotta object 1039361; SMVK general catalog pp. 246-247, accessions 1912.01.1025-.1029","source_display":"SMVK/Carlotta object 1039361; SMVK general catalog pp. 246-247, accessions 1912.01.1025-.1029","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Five Mount Barnett bullroarers, SMVK 1912.01.1025-.1029; .1025 is red-painted wood with faint black bands and human-hair cord, and the set is marked secret/sacred.","function_display":"Secret and sacred: Kim Akerman identified the Mount Barnett set as such in his 2004 review of the Stockholm collections. What ceremony it served was never recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mount barnett","display_name":"Mount Barnett bullroarer (SMVK)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/AUSMAIN-018_hambly1936_plVII_f.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/AUSMAIN-018_hambly1936_plVII_f_thumb.jpg","alt":"Hambly’s line drawing of a long rounded Kimberley whirler, filled with parallel bands and two nested rectangular motifs.","credit":"W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum of Natural History, 1936), plate VII, fig. f","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":true,"caption":"Kimberley whirler on a classic museum plate.","pool_id":"auto-AUSMAIN-018_hambly1936_plVII_f"},"slug":"ausmain-022-mount-barnett-kimberley"}