{"id":"BARNETT1937-001","label":"Tolowa bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Tolowa","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Smith River, Del Norte County, California","macroregion":"North America / Northwest Coast","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer (boy's plaything)","source_language":"English","object_description":"Not described; recorded only as a bull-roarer.","function_summary":"A boy's plaything.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"barnett1937_oregon_coast","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar001-004.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 174, element 746","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Smith River / Lake Earl area, Del Norte County -- Tolowa territory anchor, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the Smith River the bullroarer was a boy's plaything, and it was filed where it was heard to belong: among the instruments, with the split-stick and deer-hoof rattles, the roof-plank drum and the bone whistle, rather than among the games. What can be added is what it was not. This coast had no ceremonial recognition of a boy's coming of age and no dance for men alone, and the Tolowa's one solemn rite — a ten-night dance for a girl come of age — was sung without any instrument at all. Whatever a Tolowa boy whirled, it was not the property of a cult.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","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":"Homer G. Barnett, 'Culture Element Distributions: VII, Oregon Coast,' University of California Anthropological Records 1:3 (Berkeley, 1937), p. 174, element 746 ('Bull-roarer (boy's plaything)'); Philip Drucker, 'The Tolowa and Their Southwest Oregon Kin,' University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 36:4 (1937), p. 263","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar001-004.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200726101404/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar001-004.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Homer G. Barnett, 'Culture Element Distributions: VII, Oregon Coast,' University of California Anthropological Records 1:3 (Berkeley, 1937), p. 174, element 746 ('Bull-roarer (boy's plaything)'); Philip Drucker, 'The Tolowa and Their Southwest Oregon Kin,' University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 36:4 (1937), p. 263","source_display":"Homer G. Barnett, 'Culture Element Distributions: VII, Oregon Coast,' University of California Anthropological Records 1:3 (Berkeley, 1937), p. 174, element 746 ('Bull-roarer (boy's plaything)'); Philip Drucker, 'The Tolowa and Their Southwest Oregon Kin,' University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 36:4 (1937), p. 263","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Not described; recorded only as a bull-roarer.","function_display":"A boy's plaything.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tolowa","display_name":"Tolowa bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LOEB1929-028_mooney1896_fig93.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LOEB1929-028_mooney1896_fig93_thumb.jpg","alt":"Mooney's plate: (a) a Ghost Dance hummer of buffalo-hoof bone on two strings; (b) a notched bullroarer on one.","credit":"James Mooney, The Ghost-Dance Religion (1896), fig. 93","license":"Public domain (published 1896)","source_page":"https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/91672","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Mooney's plate: a Ghost Dance hoof hummer on two strings and a notched bullroarer.","pool_id":"auto-LOEB1929-028_mooney1896_fig93","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"barnett1937-001-tolowa"}