{"id":"BIRKET1930-001","label":"Chipewyan detjEndEl ne children's bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Chipewyan / Dene / Etthen-eldeli","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Churchill River / Reindeer Lake region","macroregion":"North America / Subarctic","local_name":"detjEndEl ne","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Thin notched wooden slab tied to a smoked-skin thong with a small cross-pin.","function_summary":"Children's toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"birketsmith1930_chipewyan_bullroarer","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/contributionstoc0000birk","page_or_plate":"pp. 71-72; Fig. 35a; object H 1:65, CNM (Nationalmuseet object 85119)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Churchill, Manitoba field-coverage anchor from Birket-Smith/eHRAF; the source also covers Reindeer Lake and does not give an exact collection spot for object H 1:65.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Chipewyan of the Churchill River and Reindeer Lake country, the bull-roarer belonged to the children. The Danish ethnographer Kaj Birket-Smith, there for the Fifth Thule Expedition, set it down among their toys rather than the rites, and recorded its name: detjEndEl ne.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Chipewyan (Northern Athapaskan) name for the bull-roarer, recorded by Birket-Smith.","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, Contributions to Chipewyan Ethnology, Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921–24, VI(3) (Copenhagen, 1930), pp. 71–72, fig. 35a, object H 1:65 CNM","url":"https://archive.org/details/contributionstoc0000birk"},{"citation":"Nationalmuseet, object 85119 (H 1:65 CNM), illustrated in Birket-Smith (1930), fig. 35a"}],"source_citations":"Kaj Birket-Smith, Contributions to Chipewyan Ethnology, Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921–24, VI(3) (Copenhagen, 1930), pp. 71–72, fig. 35a, object H 1:65 CNM; Nationalmuseet, object 85119 (H 1:65 CNM), illustrated in Birket-Smith (1930), fig. 35a","source_display":"Kaj Birket-Smith, Contributions to Chipewyan Ethnology, Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921–24, VI(3) (Copenhagen, 1930), pp. 71–72, fig. 35a, object H 1:65 CNM; Nationalmuseet, object 85119 (H 1:65 CNM), illustrated in Birket-Smith (1930), fig. 35a","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thin notched wooden slab tied to a smoked-skin thong with a small cross-pin.","function_display":"Children's toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"chipewyan","display_name":"Chipewyan detjEndEl ne children's bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BIRKET1930-001_birket1930-001-natmus-h165.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BIRKET1930-001_birket1930-001-natmus-h165_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, notched Chipewyan wooden bullroarer lies with its skin thong looped around a short cross-pin.","credit":"Nationalmuseet, Denmark, H1.65 (object 85119); photograph Mads Kildegaard Nielsen","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and rotated from museum photograph","source_page":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/85119","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Chipewyan notched wooden bullroarer with skin thong and cross-pin, H1.65."},"slug":"birket1930-001-chipewyan-dene-etthen-eldeli"}