{"id":"CARR2018-001","label":"Tim Ella's roarer for the whales","people_or_site":"Tim Ella, Dharawal and Yuin man of the La Perouse community (Kadoo Aboriginal cultural tours)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Kamay Botany Bay (La Perouse) and Watsons Bay, Sydney, New South Wales","macroregion":"Australia / Southeast","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A bullroarer spun by Tim Ella on his coastal cultural walks; form and material unrecorded.","function_summary":"Spun on cultural walks at La Perouse and Watsons Bay, wishing his totem, the whale, safe passage on its migration.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"carr2018_kadoo_tim_ella","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://www.sydneychic.com.au/post/2018/07/04/kadoo-aboriginal-cultural-tours-sydney","page_or_plate":"Carr 2018 (web article)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"La Perouse, Kamay Botany Bay National Park, start of the La Perouse walk; the Watsons Bay walk is the second route.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the cliffs of Kamay Botany Bay and Watsons Bay, where whales pass Sydney on their long migration north and back, Tim Ella spins a bullroarer for his totem, the whale, wishing it safe passage on its journey. A Dharawal and Yuin man of the La Perouse community, and brother of the famous Ella brothers of rugby, he walks visitors through the country where his people first met Europeans, with bush food, an ochre ceremony and a welcome to country. In the whale season, from May to November, the walkers may see the whales go by below the clifftops as the blade turns.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Deb Carr, \"Kadoo Aboriginal Cultural Tours Sydney,\" SydneyChic, 4 July 2018","url":"https://www.sydneychic.com.au/post/2018/07/04/kadoo-aboriginal-cultural-tours-sydney"},{"citation":"ABC Sydney, \"Eora Nation #39: Indigenous heritage of Watsons Bay,\" 17 February 2017","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/sydney/eora-part-2/8279570"}],"source_citations":"Deb Carr, \"Kadoo Aboriginal Cultural Tours Sydney,\" SydneyChic, 4 July 2018; ABC Sydney, \"Eora Nation #39: Indigenous heritage of Watsons Bay,\" 17 February 2017","source_display":"Deb Carr, \"Kadoo Aboriginal Cultural Tours Sydney,\" SydneyChic, 4 July 2018; ABC Sydney, \"Eora Nation #39: Indigenous heritage of Watsons Bay,\" 17 February 2017","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer spun by Tim Ella on his coastal cultural walks; form and material unrecorded.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tim ella","display_name":"Tim Ella's roarer for the whales","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/LOEB1929-003.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/LOEB1929-003_thumb.jpg","alt":"Fig. 29, no. 1: long dark Yuin mudthi blade with small notches at its ends and a cord hole near the upper end.","credit":"Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia, 1904, Fig. 29 no. 1","license":"Public domain (published 1904)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/nativetribesofso00howiuoft","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Yuin bull-roarer of the New South Wales south coast, figured by Howitt.","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--LOEB1929-003"},"slug":"carr2018-001-tim-ella-dharawal-and-yuin-man-of-the-la-perouse-community-kadoo-aboriginal-c"}