{"id":"BIRKET1929-001","label":"Hikoligjuaq anoreʒiut, crooked and notched","people_or_site":"Paallirmiut (Birket-Smith: Pâdlimiut), Caribou Inuit of Hikoligjuaq","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Nunavut / Kivalliq / Yathkyed Lake (Hikoligjuaq)","macroregion":"North America / Arctic","local_name":"anoreʒiut","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Lanceolate blade, rather crooked, thickest along the middle line, notched edges; 29.5 × 4.7 cm, on an 80 cm sinew cord ending in a hand loop. National Museum of Denmark P 28:227.","function_summary":"Children's toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"birketsmith1929_caribou_eskimos_p290","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Caribou_Eskimos/Part_1/Chapter_7","page_or_plate":"p. 290, fig. 111b","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Yathkyed Lake (Hikoligjuaq, identified in the same book, Part 1 ch. 1); collecting camp not recorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Crooked, notched along both edges and thickest down its spine, this blade hung from an 80-centimetre sinew cord that ended in a loop for the hand. It comes from the Paallirmiut at Hikoligjuaq, Yathkyed Lake, inland caribou hunters of the Barren Grounds west of Hudson Bay, who called it anoreʒiut. It was a children's thing, kept with two other spinning toys: a caribou-skin buzz disk worked on a doubled cord, and a little wind-wheel on a handle.","pull_quote":"The bull-roarer [anoreʒiut] is also known.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Kaj Birket-Smith, The Caribou Eskimos (1929), p. 290","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":"Kaj Birket-Smith, The Caribou Eskimos, Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 5(1) (1929), p. 290, fig. 111b","url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Caribou_Eskimos/Part_1/Chapter_7"}],"source_citations":"Kaj Birket-Smith, The Caribou Eskimos, Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 5(1) (1929), p. 290, fig. 111b","source_display":"Kaj Birket-Smith, The Caribou Eskimos, Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 5(1) (1929), p. 290, fig. 111b","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Lanceolate blade, rather crooked, thickest along the middle line, notched edges; 29.5 × 4.7 cm, on an 80 cm sinew cord ending in a hand loop. National Museum of Denmark P 28:227.","function_display":"Children's toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"paallirmiut","display_name":"Hikoligjuaq anoreʒiut, crooked and notched","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BIRKET1929-001_birketsmith1929_fig111b.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BIRKET1929-001_birketsmith1929_fig111b_thumb.jpg","alt":"Line drawing of a narrow bullroarer blade with a notched edge, its tangled cord at the left.","credit":"Kaj Birket-Smith, The Caribou Eskimos (Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 5:1, 1929), fig. 111b","source_page":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Caribou_Eskimos/Part_1/Chapter_7","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Paallirmiut bullroarer P 28:227 from Hikoligjuaq: crooked notched blade, 29.5 cm. Birket-Smith 1929, fig. 111b.","last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"birket1929-001-paallirmiut-birket-smith-padlimiut-caribou-inuit-of-hikoligjuaq"}