{"id":"CJFN15-001","label":"Bardi galaguru, flung into the Coalsack","people_or_site":"Barda / Bardadjawa (Bardi / Baada)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Cape Leveque / Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"galaguru","source_term":"Classification List of Bullroarers","source_language":"English","object_description":"Sacred bullroarer boards, swung on hair-string.","function_summary":"Sounded in men's initiation; in a medicine-man's hands it could also bring sickness through a dream.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"laves_ms2189_catalogue","source_type":"archive_catalogue","source_url":"https://people.anu.edu.au/david.nash/aust/laves/catalogue.html","page_or_plate":"ANU Laves catalogue Item 2.16","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"SA Museum public Baada coordinate, 122deg55E x 16deg30S, used as a Cape Leveque regional anchor rather than a ritual or manuscript collection site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The creator-hero Djamar rose from the sea off the Dampier Peninsula and struck south whirling a bullroarer. In the bush he felled a \"silver-blood\" tree, split boards from it, and drove them into a creek's stone bed in a long line — the first galaguru. On the Burumar sandhill he swung one so hard the hair-string snapped and the roarer shot into the Coalsack Nebula, the black realm of the dead. Among the Bardi the same word names the plug that stops the blood when a novice's arm-vein is opened at the fifth grade of initiation. The roarer also worked out of sight. Elkin was told by the Bardi that a doctor could make a man sick, though not kill him, by touching him in a dream with kalakor, an initiation bullroarer — and that such a doctor carried within his own body a small snake and short sticks cut to the shape of bullroarers.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"galaguru: the Bardi sacred bullroarers, first made by the creator-hero Djamar.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["snake","initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"etymology":"Among the Bardi (Bād) of Dampier Land the sacred bullroarers are called galaguru.","literal_gloss":"sacred bullroarers","semantic_cluster":"sacred_object; deity; initiation","etymology_confidence":"medium","sources":[{"citation":"Laves Papers (MS2189) catalogue, Item 2.16 (D. Nash, comp.); E. A. Worms, 'Djamar, the Creator: A Myth of the Bād (West Kimberley, Australia),' Anthropos 45 (1950): 641-658, pp. 647-650; A. P. Elkin, Aboriginal Men of High Degree (1945), pp. 142-144","url":"https://people.anu.edu.au/david.nash/aust/laves/catalogue.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013002947/https://people.anu.edu.au/david.nash/aust/laves/catalogue.html"}],"source_citations":"Laves Papers (MS2189) catalogue, Item 2.16 (D. Nash, comp.); E. A. Worms, 'Djamar, the Creator: A Myth of the Bād (West Kimberley, Australia),' Anthropos 45 (1950): 641-658, pp. 647-650; A. P. Elkin, Aboriginal Men of High Degree (1945), pp. 142-144","source_display":"Laves Papers (MS2189) catalogue, Item 2.16 (D. Nash, comp.); E. A. Worms, 'Djamar, the Creator: A Myth of the Bād (West Kimberley, Australia),' Anthropos 45 (1950): 641-658, pp. 647-650; A. P. Elkin, Aboriginal Men of High Degree (1945), pp. 142-144","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Sacred bullroarer boards, swung on hair-string.","function_display":"Sounded in men's initiation; in a medicine-man's hands it could also bring sickness through a dream.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"barda","display_name":"Bardi galaguru, flung into the Coalsack","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/wereldmuseum_125.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/wereldmuseum_125_thumb.jpg","alt":"Aboriginal Australian elongated oval wooden bullroarer with a small hole near one rounded end and faint repeated diagonal incisions.","credit":"Wereldmuseum / NMVW (acc. TM-2562-5)","license":"","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/83757","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"An Aboriginal Australian bullroarer of the general elongated-oval type."},"slug":"cjfn15-001-barda-bardadjawa-bardi-baada"}