{"id":"DRUCKER1950-003","label":"Clayoquot bullroarer","people_or_site":"Clayoquot (Tla-o-qui-aht)","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island","macroregion":"North America / Northwest Coast","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A wooden slat swung on a cord fastened to a handle, the standard form all along this coast. Neither dimensions nor material recorded.","function_summary":"Sounded in the Wolf Dance; not a child's toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"drucker1950_northwest_coast","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar009-004.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 199, elements 854-857; notes printed p. 268","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island -- territory anchor, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Clayoquot were the richest and most powerful tribe of the central Nootkan province — their chiefs all drawn from one closely related family, and with the Ahousat and the Moachat the most ardent whale hunters on the coast. Their bullroarer was a Wolf Dance instrument, swung from a handle, and never a plaything: here the roarer belonged to a whaling aristocracy, and the peoples who called it a toy lived north of them.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Philip Drucker, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast,' University of California Anthropological Records 9:3 (Berkeley, 1950), p. 199, elements 854-857, with notes p. 268","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar009-004.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260814094042/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar009-004.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Philip Drucker, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast,' University of California Anthropological Records 9:3 (Berkeley, 1950), p. 199, elements 854-857, with notes p. 268","source_display":"Philip Drucker, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast,' University of California Anthropological Records 9:3 (Berkeley, 1950), p. 199, elements 854-857, with notes p. 268","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden slat swung on a cord fastened to a handle, the standard form all along this coast. Neither dimensions nor material recorded.","function_display":"Sounded in the Wolf Dance; not a child's toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"clayoquot","display_name":"Clayoquot bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/rbcm_2138_nuuchahnulth_bullroarer.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/rbcm_2138_nuuchahnulth_bullroarer_thumb.jpg","alt":"Nuu-chah-nulth bullroarer, 1912, with a broad leaf-shaped cedar blade, cord and separate grooved handle stick.","credit":"Royal BC Museum, RBCM 2138; photo via Grant Keddie, 'Bullroarers in the Indigenous Collections of the Royal B.C. Museum' (2023)","license":"Rights not stated (Royal BC Museum ToU-only regime); rehosted low-res from the museum curator's research publication","source_page":"https://grantkeddie.com/2023/02/bullroarers-in-the-indigenous-collections-of-the-royal-b-c-museum/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Nuu-chah-nulth bullroarer, 1912: leaf-shaped cedar blade with cord and grooved handle stick."},"slug":"drucker1950-003-clayoquot-tla-o-qui-aht"}