{"id":"CHRISTY1926-001","label":"Painted North Queensland fire-plough board","people_or_site":"North Queensland; the maker and community are unrecorded","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"North Queensland","macroregion":"Australia / Queensland","local_name":"","source_term":"possibly a bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Long oval wooden board, almost flat and about half an inch thick, 17 inches or roughly 43 cm long, painted with black rectangles on one face and cut by a deep longitudinal friction groove on the other. The photograph shows two round holes near one rounded end and the separate 18-inch fire stick catalogued with it.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"christy1926_bryant_may_cat123_north_queensland","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8075907/fire-plough-and-hearth-lengths-18-ins-and-17-ins-hearth-oval-in-shape","page_or_plate":"Christy 1926, cat. no. 123; SMG 1937-682/123, UID co8075907, barcode SMG00226539, image i454964","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Deliberately generalised regional anchor in inland North Queensland, the only provenance the catalogue supplies; not a locality, community or collection point, and consistent with the atlas's generalised handling of Australian points for cultural-site sensitivity. The record's structured 'Made: Bow' field refers to Bryant and May's works at Bow in London and is expressly NOT used.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A painted oval board from North Queensland, about 43 centimetres long and almost flat, carries black rectangles on one face and a deep friction groove on the other. Two round holes are visible near one rounded end. Miller Christy took it for the hearth of a fire-plough, a form otherwise unknown in Australia, and also, possibly, for a bull-roarer.","pull_quote":"hearth oval in shape, almost flat, and about half-an-inch thick; possibly a bull-roarer; a rude pattern, in rectangles, painted in black, on the back; has one furrow only on its surface; from North Queensland. (This is a very exceptional form of the fire-plough, which, apart from the evidence afforded by this specimen, is not known to have been used in Australia.)","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Christy 1926, cat. 123","term_gloss":"","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":"Miller Christy, The Bryant and May Museum of Fire-Making Appliances: Catalogue of the Exhibits (London: Bryant and May, 1926), no. 123; Science Museum Group, 1937-682/123","url":"https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8075907/fire-plough-and-hearth-lengths-18-ins-and-17-ins-hearth-oval-in-shape"}],"source_citations":"Miller Christy, The Bryant and May Museum of Fire-Making Appliances: Catalogue of the Exhibits (London: Bryant and May, 1926), no. 123; Science Museum Group, 1937-682/123","source_display":"Miller Christy, The Bryant and May Museum of Fire-Making Appliances: Catalogue of the Exhibits (London: Bryant and May, 1926), no. 123; Science Museum Group, 1937-682/123","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Long oval wooden board, almost flat and about half an inch thick, 17 inches or roughly 43 cm long, painted with black rectangles on one face and cut by a deep longitudinal friction groove on the other. The photograph shows two round holes near one rounded end and the separate 18-inch fire stick catalogued with it.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"north queensland","display_name":"Painted North Queensland fire-plough board","image":{"full":"assets/objects/CHRISTY1926-001_smg_1937-682-123.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/CHRISTY1926-001_smg_1937-682-123_thumb.jpg","credit":"Science Museum Group, object 1937-682/123","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8075907/fire-plough-and-hearth-lengths-18-ins-and-17-ins-hearth-oval-in-shape","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The painted board and its separate fire stick."},"slug":"christy1926-001-north-queensland-the-maker-and-community-are-unrecorded"}