{"id":"DRUCKER1950-008","label":"Bella Bella bullroarer","people_or_site":"Bella Bella (Heiltsuk), Oyalit division","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Milbanke Sound, central British Columbia coast","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 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":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Milbanke Sound / Bella Bella, central British Columbia coast -- territory anchor, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"By the 1930s missionaries had been among the Heiltsuk of Milbanke Sound for sixty years, and no dance had been performed there in over fifty. The bullroarer was still in the village: a slat on a cord fastened to a handle, in children's hands. These were the people who drove the Wikeno out of Rivers Inlet and dominated the central coast.","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), pp. 161–163, 199, 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), pp. 161–163, 199, 268","source_display":"Philip Drucker, Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast, University of California Anthropological Records 9(3) (Berkeley, 1950), pp. 161–163, 199, 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 child's toy.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bella bella","display_name":"Bella Bella 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 whirring stick: a tapering blade on cord and handle (Boas fig. 189).","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--europeana_374"},"slug":"drucker1950-008-bella-bella-heiltsuk-oyalit-division"}