{"id":"BARNETT1937-005","label":"Sixes River (Kwatami) bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Sixes River (Kwatami)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Sixes River / Port Orford, 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":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Mouth of the Sixes River near Port Orford, Curry County -- the site of the town Drucker records as sukwe:me.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Kwatami of the Sixes River the bullroarer was a boy's plaything. Little more can be said of a people of whom little more is known: their recorded geography amounts to three town names — sukwe:me at the river mouth, kwatai:me just north of it, kusuilme — and no ceremony of theirs was ever described. The whirled slat belonged to boys.","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"}],"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":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"sixes river","display_name":"Sixes River (Kwatami) bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39594.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39594_thumb.jpg","alt":"Zuni bullroarer assembly with a long narrow wooden component and coiled cord, Pitt Rivers Museum.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1903.129.4.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39594","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Zuni bullroarer with a slender wooden handle and coiled cord","pool_id":"auto-prm--prm_39594","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"barnett1937-005-sixes-river-kwatami"}