{"id":"BATES1904-002","label":"Weld Range Nyanēr'se","people_or_site":"Wanmala (Bates's label); Karreedee and Bindaweeree of the Weld Range","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Weld Range, Cue magisterial district, Murchison, Western Australia","macroregion":"Australia / Western Australia","local_name":"Nyanēr'se","source_term":"Small \"Bullroarer\" board","source_language":"Wajarri-area (Bates: Wanmala)","object_description":"A small bullroarer board, called Nyanēr'se; the large sacred board had a separate name, Eemarree.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"bates_weld_range_karreedee","source_type":"linguistic_manuscript","source_url":"https://bates.org.au/text/54-073T.html","page_or_plate":"folio 54/101 (marginal notes: Nyanēr'se, Eemarree, Yeemeree)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"The Weld Range, north-west of Cue (OpenStreetMap Weld Range locality, -27.05, 117.61); the speakers' named runs are not located, so this is a range-level anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Two boards, two names. Karreedee and Bindaweeree, speaking for their country around the Weld Range north-west of Cue, called the small board, the bullroarer, Nyanēr'se, and gave the large sacred board a name of its own, Eemarree. A sacred board hung in the sky as well: the dark patch in the Milky Way, they said, was one, and its name was Yeemeree. The owl, they said, was the father of all the Yamaji, the people of that country.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Nyanēr'se: the small bullroarer board. Eemarree: the large sacred board. Yeemeree (also eendeeree): the dark spot in the Milky Way, itself a sacred board.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Daisy Bates, vocabulary questionnaire, Karreedee and Bindaweeree, Weld Range, Cue Magisterial District, NLA MS 365, folio 54/101 (Digital Daisy Bates)","url":"https://bates.org.au/text/54-073T.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20170311122108/https://bates.org.au/text/54-073T.html"}],"source_citations":"Daisy Bates, vocabulary questionnaire, Karreedee and Bindaweeree, Weld Range, Cue Magisterial District, NLA MS 365, folio 54/101 (Digital Daisy Bates)","source_display":"Daisy Bates, vocabulary questionnaire, Karreedee and Bindaweeree, Weld Range, Cue Magisterial District, NLA MS 365, folio 54/101 (Digital Daisy Bates)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A small bullroarer board, called Nyanēr'se; the large sacred board had a separate name, Eemarree.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wanmala","display_name":"Weld Range Nyanēr'se","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/wmmissed_0.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/wmmissed_0_thumb.jpg","alt":"An elongated wooden board incised with fine wavy parallel lines.","credit":"Wereldmuseum / NMVW (acc. RV-1709-18)","license":"CC-BY-SA","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/717003","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"An elongated wooden board incised with fine wavy parallel lines","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--wmmissed_0","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"bates1904-002-wanmala-bates-s-label-karreedee-and-bindaweeree-of-the-weld-range"}