{"id":"CAPELL1956-010","label":"Wandarang wugunabibi","people_or_site":"Wandarang (Warndarrang)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Inland from the Phelp River coast, west toward Mount Leane, south-eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia / Arnhem Land","local_name":"wugunabibi","source_term":"BULLROARER: wugunabibi","source_language":"Wandarang","object_description":"A bullroarer, called wugunabibi; 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 30); language key, line 30 = Wandaraŋ.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate Wandarang language-country centroid after the South Australian Museum Wandarang entry (135°6′E, 14°5′S; Phelp River inland from the coast, west to Mount Leane); a language-level anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Wandarang speakers called the bullroarer wugunabibi. Their country lay inland from the Phelp River coast in south-eastern Arnhem Land, west toward Mount Leane, between the Nunggubuyu and the Mara and Alawa of the Roper River. The word holds the name Gunabibi, the great initiation ceremony of that country, whose central being is the Rainbow Serpent, and the Ngalakan to the west likewise called their bullroarer kunapippi; the neighbouring Mara and Nunggubuyu said mamuna.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"wugunabibi: 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"},{"citation":"Baldwin Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (London: Macmillan, 1914), p. 176","url":"https://archive.org/details/cu31924028623076"}],"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; Baldwin Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (London: Macmillan, 1914), p. 176","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; Baldwin Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (London: Macmillan, 1914), p. 176","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called wugunabibi; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wandarang","display_name":"Wandarang wugunabibi","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/MUS2026-206_schmeltz1904_iae16_plIV_fig10.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/MUS2026-206_schmeltz1904_iae16_plIV_fig10_thumb.jpg","credit":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, catalogue of the Clement collection, Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 16 (1904), Plate IV; drawn and lithographed by R. Raar from the Leiden ethnographic museum; Internet Archive scan by Robarts Library, University of Toronto","license":"Public domain (published 1904); scan carries no additional restriction","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/internationalesa16inteuoft","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Schmeltz's Plate IV, fig. 10","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--MUS2026-206_schmeltz1904_iae16_plIV_fig10","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"capell1956-010-wandarang-warndarrang"}