{"id":"DRUCKER1937-002","label":"Desert Cahuilla assembly bullroarer (Tuva)","people_or_site":"Desert Cahuilla (Wontcaktamyahwic clan), Tuva","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Tuva / Fish Springs, Salton Sink, Southern California","macroregion":"North America / California","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"Ceremonial use only; whirled to assemble the people.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"drucker1937_southern_california","source_type":"primary_ethnographic_survey","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84110","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 5, 25; items 924, 926","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Tuva, the southernmost Desert Cahuilla village in living memory, at Fish Springs just south of the Riverside-Imperial county line near the Salton Sea, per Strong 1929, pp. 49-50. Drucker's printed p. 5 glosses Tuva as the site of Agua Dulce (present Oasis, some miles north), following Barrows; Strong 1929, p. 49 n. 119 treats that identification as probably an error, and Strong did the village-by-village mapping with Desert Cahuilla informants. Not a documented sounding site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Tuva stood at the southern edge of Desert Cahuilla country, near the springs above the Salton Sink, and it was home to the Wontcaktamyahwic clan. There the bullroarer belonged to ceremony alone — whirled to call the people together, and put to no other use. Ramon Razon, a man of the clan itself, gave that account in the mid-1930s; Razon was also the surname of Fig Tree John, the clan's famous old man, and his sons.","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":"Philip Drucker, 'Culture Element Distributions: V, Southern California,' Anthropological Records 1:1 (1937), pp. 5 and 25, items 924 and 926 (informant Ramon Razon, Desert Cahuilla)","url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84110","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013004852/https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84110"}],"source_citations":"Philip Drucker, 'Culture Element Distributions: V, Southern California,' Anthropological Records 1:1 (1937), pp. 5 and 25, items 924 and 926 (informant Ramon Razon, Desert Cahuilla)","source_display":"Philip Drucker, 'Culture Element Distributions: V, Southern California,' Anthropological Records 1:1 (1937), pp. 5 and 25, items 924 and 926 (informant Ramon Razon, Desert Cahuilla)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Ceremonial use only; whirled to assemble the people.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"desert cahuilla","display_name":"Desert Cahuilla assembly bullroarer (Tuva)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NA-S1952-002_kroeber_plate44_def.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NA-S1952-002_kroeber_plate44_def_thumb.jpg","alt":"Kroeber’s plate of three California bullroarers from Yokuts, Luiseño and Pomo communities: a short slat at left, a long corded board in the centre, and the broader Pomo specimen f at right.","credit":"A. L. Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California (BAE Bulletin 78, 1925), Plate 44","license":"Public domain (Kroeber 1925, BAE Bulletin 78)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/handbookofindian00kroe_0","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Kroeber’s plate of Yokuts, Luiseño, and Pomo bullroarers.","pool_id":"auto-NA-S1952-002_kroeber_plate44_def"},"slug":"drucker1937-002-desert-cahuilla-wontcaktamyahwic-clan-tuva"}