{"id":"CAPELL1956-003","label":"Djinba malaidjara","people_or_site":"Djinba","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Inland from the northern Arafura Swamp to the upper Goyder River, central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia / Arnhem Land","local_name":"malaidjara","source_term":"BULLROARER: malaidjara","source_language":"Djinba","object_description":"A bullroarer, called malaidjara; 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 14); language key, line 14 = Djinba.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate Djinba language-country centroid after the South Australian Museum Djinba entry (12°50′S, 134°55′E; northern Arafura Swamp to upper Goyder River); a language-level anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Djinba speakers called the bullroarer malaidjara, a name heard nowhere else among their neighbours. Their country runs inland from the northern edge of the Arafura Swamp to the upper Goyder River, and holds clans of both moieties, Dhuwa and Yirritja. In the ceremonies of this country the roar of the blade was the voice of the great python Yurlunggur. Around them the instrument was maralbindi to Djinang and Ritharrngu speakers and djurbur to the Wangurri and Yan-nhaŋu.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"malaidjara: 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 malaidjara; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"djinba","display_name":"Djinba malaidjara","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared/ringve_rmt258_churinga.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared/ringve_rmt258_churinga_thumb.jpg","credit":"Ringve Music Museum, Trondheim (RMT 258)","license":"Ringve Museum / DigitaltMuseum","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.no/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A painted churinga from the Ringve Music Museum","pool_id":"auto-shared--ringve_rmt258_churinga","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"capell1956-003-djinba"}