{"id":"DRIVER1939-001","label":"Sinkyone wind-control bullroarer","people_or_site":"Sinkyone","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"South Fork Eel River / Bull Creek / Garberville region","macroregion":"North America / California","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden bullroarer; no dimensions or cord detail recorded.","function_summary":"Produced wind and was used more often to stop wind than to start it.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"driver_1939_northwest_california","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84115","page_or_plate":"printed p. 398; culture elements 1341 and 1344","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"South Fork Eel anchor near Garberville and Bull Creek matching Driver's Sin 1 consultant history; not a named performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the South Fork of the Eel, George Bert told Harold Driver in 1935 that the bullroarer's special power was to raise wind — and that Sinkyone people used it more often to stop wind than to start it. A strip of madroña bark, struck and swung from one hand, was believed to do the same. Bert was eighty-four, born on Bull Creek, and had spent most of his life around Garberville.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Harold E. Driver, Culture Element Distributions: X, Northwest California, Anthropological Records 1(6), 1939, p. 398; direct 1935 fieldwork with Sinkyone consultant George Bert","url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84115","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013004800/https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84115"}],"source_citations":"Harold E. Driver, Culture Element Distributions: X, Northwest California, Anthropological Records 1(6), 1939, p. 398; direct 1935 fieldwork with Sinkyone consultant George Bert","source_display":"Harold E. Driver, Culture Element Distributions: X, Northwest California, Anthropological Records 1(6), 1939, p. 398; direct 1935 fieldwork with Sinkyone consultant George Bert","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden bullroarer; no dimensions or cord detail recorded.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"sinkyone","display_name":"Sinkyone wind-control bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NAAIN-001_naain-001-nmai-20-5062.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAAIN-001_naain-001-nmai-20-5062_thumb.jpg","alt":"Catawba wooden bullroarer with a long rounded blade and cord threaded through its squared end.","credit":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 20/5062","license":"Usage Conditions Apply (© Smithsonian NMAI); authorization required for website publication; proposed for non-commercial research rehosting. Metadata CC0.","source_page":"https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_219016","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Catawba carved wooden bullroarer with its cord","pool_id":"auto-NAAIN-001_naain-001-nmai-20-5062"},"slug":"driver1939-001-sinkyone"}