{"id":"BARNETT1937-003","label":"Galice Creek bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Galice Creek (Taltushtuntede)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Galice Creek, Rogue River, Josephine County, Oregon","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":"Galice Creek, a tributary of the Rogue River, Josephine County -- territory anchor, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Galice Creek, a pocket of Athabaskan speakers on the middle Rogue whose life had become almost wholly Takelma, the bullroarer was a boy's plaything. These were people who counted wolves as friends and allies of men. Kill one and the pack took revenge — on the killer, on one of his kin, or by stealing a child from the village, who would run with the wolves and in time lose all wish to come home. When a girl came of age, men and women danced in a ring around her for ten nights, keeping time with deer-hoof rattles.","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)')","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"},{"citation":"Philip Drucker, 'The Tolowa and Their Southwest Oregon Kin,' UC-PAAE 36:4 (1937), pp. 283-284","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp036-005.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260322042110/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp036-005.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,' UC-PAAE 36:4 (1937), pp. 283-284","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,' UC-PAAE 36:4 (1937), pp. 283-284","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":"galice creek","display_name":"Galice Creek 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 1896 drawing: a Ghost Dance hoof hummer and a notched Arapaho bullroarer.","pool_id":"auto-LOEB1929-028_mooney1896_fig93","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"barnett1937-003-galice-creek-taltushtuntede"}