{"id":"DAVIDSON2017-001","label":"Pig Bay notched bone blade","people_or_site":"Pig Bay R10/22 archaeological site","country_current":"New Zealand","historic_region":"Pig Bay / Motutapu Island / Hauraki Gulf","macroregion":"Oceania / Polynesia","local_name":"kōrorohū","source_term":"bullroarer / kōrorohū","source_language":"English","object_description":"Carefully shaped flat bone object with opposed shallow notches near its middle, from a disturbance in Layer 8, square B101.","function_summary":"Child's bullroarer / kōrorohū.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"davidson_leach2017_pig_bay_kororohu","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://ref.coastalrestorationtrust.org.nz/site/assets/files/10637/ram52davidsonleach_pdf.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 17; Fig. 9.1","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Pig Bay site anchor on northwestern Motutapu Island; not a square-level find coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the adze-making debris at Pig Bay, on Motutapu Island in the Hauraki Gulf, lay a carefully shaped flat bone kōrorohū — a child's bullroarer. Its pointed blade and compact notched waist give the small instrument its distinctive form.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Kōrorohū: Māori term for a child's bullroarer.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 1400–1500 AD","date_qualification":"Pig Bay occupation range from radiocarbon dates; object came from a disturbance in Layer 8.","date_basis":"site_horizon","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"davidson_leach2017_pig_bay_kororohu, Davidson and Leach 2017 pp. 9 and 14–17 fig. 7 and table 1","sources":[{"citation":"Janet Davidson and Foss Leach, 'Archaeological excavations at Pig Bay,' Records of the Auckland Museum 52 (2017), p. 17, fig. 9.1","url":"https://ref.coastalrestorationtrust.org.nz/site/assets/files/10637/ram52davidsonleach_pdf.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013032117/https://ref.coastalrestorationtrust.org.nz/site/assets/files/10637/ram52davidsonleach_pdf.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Janet Davidson and Foss Leach, 'Archaeological excavations at Pig Bay,' Records of the Auckland Museum 52 (2017), p. 17, fig. 9.1","source_display":"Janet Davidson and Foss Leach, 'Archaeological excavations at Pig Bay,' Records of the Auckland Museum 52 (2017), p. 17, fig. 9.1","date_citation_display":"Davidson and Leach 2017 pp. 9 and 14–17 fig. 7 and table 1","object_display":"Carefully shaped flat bone object with opposed shallow notches near its middle, from a disturbance in Layer 8, square B101.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pig bay","display_name":"Pig Bay notched bone blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/DAVIDSON2017-001_davidsonleach2017_fig9_pig_bay.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/DAVIDSON2017-001_davidsonleach2017_fig9_pig_bay_thumb.jpg","alt":"Bone and shell finds from Pig Bay, numbered 1–6; the long flat bone item at left, marked 1, is identified as a possible kōrorohū bullroarer.","credit":"Janet Davidson and Foss Leach, Records of the Auckland Museum 52 (2017), Fig. 9","license":"© Auckland War Memorial Museum / the authors — no open license stated for vol. 52; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://ref.coastalrestorationtrust.org.nz/site/assets/files/10637/ram52davidsonleach_pdf.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Bone and shell items from Pig Bay; the bullroarer is the flat bone kōrorohū blade at left, marked 1."},"slug":"davidson2017-001-pig-bay-r10-22-archaeological-site"}