{"id":"DRUCKER1950-005","label":"Kweeha bullroarer","people_or_site":"Kweeha (Kwixa), Fort Rupert Kwaguʼł","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Fort Rupert, northeastern 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":"A toy; no ceremonial use recorded.","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":"Fort Rupert, northeastern Vancouver Island. Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Kweeha, one of the four Kwaguʼł tribes drawn together at Fort Rupert by the fur trade, the bullroarer was a handled slat kept as a toy. That is remarkable for where it was: Fort Rupert was the great ceremonial village of the coast, home of the tsetseka, the winter season in which the hamatsa and the other dancing societies take possession of the houses — and the bullroarer had no part in any of it. Across the island at Quatsino Sound the same instrument was the voice of a spirit coming to fetch a novice; here it was a plaything.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","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,"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":"A toy; no ceremonial use recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kweeha","display_name":"Kweeha bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared_culin1907_fig1008.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared_culin1907_fig1008_thumb.jpg","alt":"Culin’s 1907 engraving of an Oglala tateka yuhmunpi from Pine Ridge: a long narrow stick, looping cord and small flat blade.","credit":"Stewart Culin, Games of the North American Indians (24th ARBAE, 1907), fig. 1008","license":"Public domain (published 1907)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/gamesofnorthamer00culirich","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Oglala tateka yuhmunpi from Pine Ridge, figured by Culin in 1907.","pool_id":"auto-shared_culin1907_fig1008"},"slug":"drucker1950-005-kweeha-kwixa-fort-rupert-kwagu"}