{"id":"CAPELL1956-002","label":"Burarra maralbindi","people_or_site":"Burarra (Capell's Burera)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Coast on both sides of the Blyth River mouth, east to Cape Stewart, north-central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia / Arnhem Land","local_name":"maralbindi","source_term":"BULLROARER: maralbindi","source_language":"Burarra","object_description":"A bullroarer, called maralbindi; its form is not recorded.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"capell1956_vocabulary_600_words","source_type":"linguistic_manuscript","source_url":"https://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/node/9216","page_or_plate":"Capell 1956 p. 18 (BULLROARER column, line 7); language key, line 7 = Burera.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate Burarra language-country centroid after the South Australian Museum Barara entry (both sides of the Blyth River, east to Cape Stewart, about 30 km inland); a language-level anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Burarra, the language of the Blyth River mouth and the coast east to Cape Stewart, the bullroarer was maralbindi. The name was shared well beyond Burarra country: Djinang speakers to the east and Ritharrngu speakers inland used it too, and far to the south the Ngandi called the instrument maralpiṇḍiʔ. In the great ceremonies of the Yolŋu clans to the east, the roar of the blade was the voice of the python Yurlunggur.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"maralbindi: bullroarer (Capell 1956, p. 18, BULLROARER column)","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":["snake"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Arthur Capell, A Vocabulary of 600 Words in Forty North Australian Languages (typescript, Sydney, 1956), State Library of New South Wales A 6929, p. 18","url":"https://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/node/9216"}],"source_citations":"Arthur Capell, A Vocabulary of 600 Words in Forty North Australian Languages (typescript, Sydney, 1956), State Library of New South Wales A 6929, p. 18","source_display":"Arthur Capell, A Vocabulary of 600 Words in Forty North Australian Languages (typescript, Sydney, 1956), State Library of New South Wales A 6929, p. 18","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called maralbindi; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"burarra","display_name":"Burarra maralbindi","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-238_spencer_2020_0073_front.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-238_spencer_2020_0073_front_thumb.jpg","credit":"Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, accession 2020.0073","license":"Spencer Museum of Art image use terms (educational reuse with credit)","source_page":"https://spencerart.ku.edu/art/collections-online/object/54746","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Spencer Museum of Art 2020.0073, the painted double-pointed bullroarer","pool_id":"auto-MUS2026-238_spencer_2020_0073_front","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"capell1956-002-burarra-capell-s-burera"}