{"id":"BATES1904-003","label":"Kokobina's booming Booleewan","people_or_site":"Nangamurda (Nyangumarta); Kokobina of Warran (Wandarree)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Pilbara magisterial district, Western Australia","macroregion":"Australia / Western Australia","local_name":"Booleewan (boolewan)","source_term":"small \"bullroarer\" board with hole & string","source_language":"Nyangumarta (Bates: Nangamurda wonga)","object_description":"A small bullroarer board with a hole and string; the large sacred board was called milyabil.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"bates_kokobina_booleewan","source_type":"linguistic_manuscript","source_url":"https://bates.org.au/text/48-038T.html","page_or_plate":"folio 48/42 (Booleewan; Milyabil; \"Bullroarer: big one = milyabil; little one = boolewan\")","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate anchor in southern Nyangumarta (Bates's Nangamurda) country within the old Pilbara magisterial district; Warran (Wandarree) has not been located.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Booleewan boomed. For Kokobina, a Nyangumarta man from Warran in the Pilbara, it was the small board with a hole and a string that made a booming noise when twirled. The long sacred board was another thing with another name. The bullroarer came in two sizes: the big one milyabil, the little one boolewan.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Booleewan / boolewan: the small bullroarer board, \"making booming noise when twirled.\" Milyabil: the long sacred board, the \"big one.\"","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, Kokobina of Warran (Wandarree), Pilbara Magisterial District, Nangamurda wonga, NLA MS 365, folio 48/42 (Digital Daisy Bates)","url":"https://bates.org.au/text/48-038T.html"}],"source_citations":"Daisy Bates, vocabulary questionnaire, Kokobina of Warran (Wandarree), Pilbara Magisterial District, Nangamurda wonga, NLA MS 365, folio 48/42 (Digital Daisy Bates)","source_display":"Daisy Bates, vocabulary questionnaire, Kokobina of Warran (Wandarree), Pilbara Magisterial District, Nangamurda wonga, NLA MS 365, folio 48/42 (Digital Daisy Bates)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A small bullroarer board with a hole and string; the large sacred board was called milyabil.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"nangamurda","display_name":"Kokobina's booming Booleewan","image":{"full":"assets/objects/CJFN15-003_cjfn15-003-berndt1941-fig2-1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/CJFN15-003_cjfn15-003-berndt1941-fig2-1_thumb.jpg","credit":"R. M. Berndt, Tribal Migrations and Myths Centring on Ooldea, Oceania 12(1), 1941, Fig. 2 no. 1, p. 10","license":"Copyright status unconfirmed (1941 publication); rehosted for non-commercial research.","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/sim_oceania_1941-09_12_1/page/10/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A pulpiŋba as Berndt drew it in 1941","pool_id":"auto-CJFN15-003_cjfn15-003-berndt1941-fig2-1","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"bates1904-003-nangamurda-nyangumarta-kokobina-of-warran-wandarree"}