{"id":"CAMERON1880-001","label":"Gunggari Bora ceremony bullroarer","people_or_site":"Unghi (Gunggari, AUSTLANG D37), country between the Maranoa and Warrego Rivers, extending south to the Balonne River","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Queensland / Maranoa River district","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"use of bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"No object survives: the attestation is archival. A letter from the pastoralist-ethnographer A. L. P. Cameron to A. W. Howitt, written from Mossgiel on 4 July 1880, sits in the Howitt Collection at AIATSIS (MS 69, Box 2, Folder 5, Paper 1a) under the annotation \"Unghi tribe; Bora ceremony; after-death beliefs; protective charms; use of bullroarer.\"","function_summary":"Sounded at the Bora initiation ceremony.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"cameron_howitt_1880_ms69_unghi_bora","source_type":"archive_finding_aid","source_url":"https://howittandfison.org/document/XM106/1","page_or_plate":"AIATSIS MS 69, Box 2, Folder 5, Paper 1a; Howitt and Fison Archive XM106","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Maranoa River corridor anchor (near Mitchell, Queensland), the centre of the country Howitt himself assigned the Unghi, \"between the Maranoa and Warrego Rivers... extending southwards to the Balonne River\"; a region-level point, since the sources support no finer locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In July 1880 the pastoralist A. L. P. Cameron, one of A. W. Howitt's most reliable outback correspondents, wrote to him about the Unghi — the Gunggari of the Maranoa River country in southern Queensland, whose lands ran from the Maranoa and Warrego south to the Balonne. His letter touched on the Bora initiation ground, beliefs about the dead, protective charms, and the use of the bullroarer, an instrument sounding somewhere within a men's ceremony still sealed from view.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":true,"flags":["initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"A. L. P. Cameron to A. W. Howitt, Mossgiel, 4 July 1880: AIATSIS MS 69 (Howitt Collection), Box 2, Folder 5, Paper 1a; Museums Victoria, Howitt and Fison Archive, XM106","url":"https://howittandfison.org/document/XM106/1","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20241107141735/https://howittandfison.org/document/XM106/1"}],"source_citations":"A. L. P. Cameron to A. W. Howitt, Mossgiel, 4 July 1880: AIATSIS MS 69 (Howitt Collection), Box 2, Folder 5, Paper 1a; Museums Victoria, Howitt and Fison Archive, XM106","source_display":"A. L. P. Cameron to A. W. Howitt, Mossgiel, 4 July 1880: AIATSIS MS 69 (Howitt Collection), Box 2, Folder 5, Paper 1a; Museums Victoria, Howitt and Fison Archive, XM106","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"No object survives: the attestation is archival. A letter from the pastoralist-ethnographer A. L. P. Cameron to A. W. Howitt, written from Mossgiel on 4 July 1880, sits in the Howitt Collection at AIATSIS (MS 69, Box 2, Folder 5, Paper 1a) under the annotation \"Unghi tribe; Bora ceremony; after-death beliefs; protective charms; use of bullroarer.\"","function_display":"Sounded at the Bora initiation ceremony.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"unghi gunggari","display_name":"Gunggari Bora ceremony bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SG1899-003_hamlyn1913_pl13_qe13-237.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SG1899-003_hamlyn1913_pl13_qe13-237_thumb.jpg","alt":"A dark, tapering Kalkadoon wilmurra blade with pale diagonal bands and a long looped cord, from Queensland’s Selwyn District.","credit":"R. Hamlyn-Harris, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum II (1913), pl. XIII fig. 1 — Queensland Museum Q.E. 13/237","license":"Public domain (published 1913)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/memoirsqueensla2haml","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Kalkadoon wilmurra from Queensland’s Selwyn District, Q.E. 13/237.","pool_id":"auto-SG1899-003_hamlyn1913_pl13_qe13-237","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"cameron1880-001-unghi-gunggari-austlang-d37-country-between-the-maranoa-and-warrego-rivers"}