{"id":"BARNETT1937-004","label":"Tututni bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Tututni (Lower Rogue River)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Lower Rogue River, Curry 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":"low_medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Lower Rogue River near Gold Beach, Curry County -- territory anchor, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the lower Rogue the bullroarer was a boy's plaything, free for any child to whirl. The contrast tells: children were forbidden to play with deer hooves — to print tracks with them meant the hunter would afterwards find only tracks — because deer-hoof rattles were this coast's ritual instrument. The roarer carried no such charge. Nobody stopped a boy from swinging it.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":true,"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"}],"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)')","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)')","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Not described; recorded only as a bull-roarer.","function_display":"A boy's plaything.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tututni","display_name":"Tututni bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NAEXP-002.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAEXP-002_thumb.jpg","alt":"Long, slender wooden handle stick from an Oglala bullroarer, shown by itself against a pale background.","credit":"Courtesy of the Penn Museum (non-commercial / educational use)","license":"Penn Museum — educational/non-commercial use","source_page":"https://collections.penn.museum/collections/object/160668","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Oglala Lakota bull-roarer, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.","pool_id":"auto-NAEXP-002","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-03"},"slug":"barnett1937-004-tututni-lower-rogue-river"}