{"id":"CAPELL1956-012","label":"Wangurri djurbur","people_or_site":"Wangurri (Capell's Wan'guri; Wonguri)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"North-east Arnhem Land, around Arnhem Bay and Elcho Island, Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia / Arnhem Land","local_name":"djurbur","source_term":"BULLROARER: djurbur","source_language":"Wangurri","object_description":"A bullroarer, called djurbur; 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 13); language key, line 13 = Wan'guri.","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate anchor south-west of Arnhem Bay, Wangurri clan country (Berndt places the Mandjigai-Wonguri at Arnhem Bay); clan-level, low precision, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Wangurri speakers called the bullroarer djurbur, the same word as the Yan-nhaŋu of the Crocodile Islands. Wangurri is a clan language of the Yirritja moiety in north-east Arnhem Land, its people at home around Arnhem Bay and on Elcho Island. Their song cycles include the Moon-Bone song of the Wonguri-Mandjikai, one of the best known of all Arnhem Land song poems.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"djurbur: bullroarer (Capell 1956, p. 18, BULLROARER column)","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"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":"Ronald M. Berndt, \"A Wonguri-'Mandjikai Song Cycle of the Moon-Bone\", Oceania 19, no. 1 (1948): 16-50","url":""}],"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; Ronald M. Berndt, \"A Wonguri-'Mandjikai Song Cycle of the Moon-Bone\", Oceania 19, no. 1 (1948): 16-50","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; Ronald M. Berndt, \"A Wonguri-'Mandjikai Song Cycle of the Moon-Bone\", Oceania 19, no. 1 (1948): 16-50","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called djurbur; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wangurri capell","display_name":"Wangurri djurbur","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAMMOND1933-001_hammond1933-001-woondah-implements.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAMMOND1933-001_hammond1933-001-woondah-implements_thumb.jpg","alt":"Hammond’s drawing of a broad woondah blade with zigzag notches along both long edges and a cord loop at one end.","credit":"J. E. Hammond, Winjan’s People (1933), Aboriginal Weapons and Implements plate; photograph courtesy Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, item 138102","license":"Rights reserved (© Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers photograph; 1933 drawing copyright status unconfirmed); rehosted for non-commercial research.","source_page":"https://www.treloars.com/pages/books/138102/j-e-hammond/winjans-people-the-story-of-the-south-west-australian-aborigines-edited-by-paul-hasluck","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Woondah, the corded bullroarer in Hammond’s implements plate (1933)","pool_id":"auto-HAMMOND1933-001_hammond1933-001-woondah-implements","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"capell1956-012-wangurri-capell-s-wan-guri-wonguri"}