{"id":"CAPELL1956-014","label":"Djinang maralbindi","people_or_site":"Djinang (Capell's Jandjinang; Warner's Yandjinung)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Crocodile Islands and Milingimbi south to the middle Blyth River and east to the Glyde River, north-central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia / Arnhem Land","local_name":"maralbindi","source_term":"BULLROARER: maralbindi","source_language":"Djinang","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 15); language key, line 15 = Jandjinang.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate Djinang language-country centroid after the South Australian Museum Djinang entry (12°20'S, 134°50'E; Crocodile Islands and Milingimbi south to the middle Blyth River, east to the Glyde and the Arafura Swamp); a language-level anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Djinang speakers called the bullroarer maralbindi, the same word as their Burarra neighbours to the west and the Ritharrngu inland, and Gupapuyngu speakers said ralbindi. Djinang country runs from the Crocodile Islands and Milingimbi south to the middle Blyth River, and east to the Glyde and the edge of the Arafura Swamp. The Djinang were among the peoples of the Murngin ceremonies, in which the roar of the blade was the voice of the great 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"},{"citation":"W. Lloyd Warner, A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe (rev. ed., New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964), pp. 282, 291","url":"https://archive.org/details/blackcivilizatio0000warn"}],"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; W. Lloyd Warner, A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe (rev. ed., New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964), pp. 282, 291","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; W. Lloyd Warner, A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe (rev. ed., New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964), pp. 282, 291","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":"djinang capell","display_name":"Djinang maralbindi","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/mia_99_163_2_australia.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/mia_99_163_2_australia_thumb.jpg","credit":"Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession 99.163.2","license":"Minneapolis Institute of Art open access (public domain)","source_page":"https://collections.artsmia.org/art/99.163.2","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Minneapolis Institute of Art 99.163.2, the incised Australian ceremonial…","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--mia_99_163_2_australia","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"capell1956-014-djinang-capell-s-jandjinang-warner-s-yandjinung"}