{"id":"BATES1904-004","label":"Ngarrooda and Yeemarree, little and long","people_or_site":"Nunnagurdi (Bates's Nunnagurdee); Mundhongo of Kunnalagunda and Arranooba","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Northampton magisterial district, north of Geraldton, Western Australia (Nhanda country)","macroregion":"Australia / Western Australia","local_name":"Ngarrooda; Yeemarree","source_term":"small bullroarer; little bullroarer; long bullroarer","source_language":"Nhanda-area (Bates: Nunnagurdee)","object_description":"Bullroarers named by size: the small or little one Ngarrooda, the long one Yeemarree.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"bates_northampton_mundhongo","source_type":"linguistic_manuscript","source_url":"https://bates.org.au/text/54-023T.html","page_or_plate":"folio 54/47 (\"small bullroarer Ngarrooda\"); folio 54/48 (\"little bullroarer Ngarrooda\"; \"long bullroarer Yeemarree\")","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Northampton townsite, for the Northampton magisterial district named in the vocabulary heading; Kunnalagunda and Arranooba are not matched to a modern gazetteer.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Mundhongo, a Nunnagurdi man of Kunnalagunda and Arranooba in the Northampton district, named the bullroarer by its size: the little one was Ngarrooda, the long one Yeemarree. He set them among the things of men's ritual life, beside the circumcision knife, Meetoo, and the magic pearlshell, Dibbooroo. Northampton lies in the hills behind the coast north of Geraldton.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Ngarrooda: the small bullroarer. Yeemarree: the long bullroarer. Meetoo: circumcision knife. Dibbooroo: magic pearlshell.","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, Mundhongo, Northampton Magisterial District, Nunnagurdee people, NLA MS 365, folios 54/47–48 (Digital Daisy Bates)","url":"https://bates.org.au/text/54-023T.html"}],"source_citations":"Daisy Bates, vocabulary questionnaire, Mundhongo, Northampton Magisterial District, Nunnagurdee people, NLA MS 365, folios 54/47–48 (Digital Daisy Bates)","source_display":"Daisy Bates, vocabulary questionnaire, Mundhongo, Northampton Magisterial District, Nunnagurdee people, NLA MS 365, folios 54/47–48 (Digital Daisy Bates)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarers named by size: the small or little one Ngarrooda, the long one Yeemarree.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"nunnagurdi","display_name":"Ngarrooda and Yeemarree, little and long","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATES1904-004_bates_ms365_54-048.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATES1904-004_bates_ms365_54-048_thumb.jpg","alt":"Handwritten vocabulary page in Daisy Bates’s papers; near the foot, entries for the little and long bullroarer.","credit":"Daisy Bates Papers, National Library of Australia MS 365, folio 54/48 (Digital Daisy Bates)","source_page":"https://bates.org.au/text/54-023T.html","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Mundhongo's Northampton vocabulary in Daisy Bates's papers: \"little bullroarer Ngarrooda, long bullroarer Yeemarree.\"","last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"bates1904-004-nunnagurdi-bates-s-nunnagurdee-mundhongo-of-kunnalagunda-and-arranooba"}