{"id":"DRUCKER1950-006","label":"Owikeno bullroarer","people_or_site":"Wikeno (Wuikinuxv)","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Rivers Inlet and Owikeno Lake, central British Columbia coast","macroregion":"North America / Northwest Coast","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A slat swung on a cord fastened to a handle, the standard form all along this coast. Neither dimensions nor material recorded.","function_summary":"A child's 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":"Head of Rivers Inlet / Owikeno Lake, central British Columbia coast -- territory anchor, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Owikeno bullroarer was a handled slat and a child's toy. Its owners once held all of Rivers Inlet — perhaps the richest sockeye water on the coast — along with most of Calvert Island at its mouth, until the Bella Bella pushed them up to the head of it, where they stayed, a compact isolated people on Owikeno Lake. What their culture had lost by the 1930s it had lost to dwindling numbers rather than to conversion, which makes the toy a survival rather than a recollection.","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 slat swung on a cord fastened to a handle, the standard form all along this coast. Neither dimensions nor material recorded.","function_display":"A child's toy; no ceremonial use recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wikeno","display_name":"Owikeno bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/europeana_374.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/europeana_374_thumb.jpg","alt":"Berlin IV A 1488, the whirring stick Boas published as Koskimo: a broad tapering wooden blade and separate slim handle connected by a short cord at their ends.","credit":"Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (acc. IV A 1488)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 3.0","source_page":"http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=1313877","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Koskimo blade, cord and handle, as drawn by Boas.","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--europeana_374"},"slug":"drucker1950-006-wikeno-wuikinuxv"}