{"id":"EYLMANN1908-001","label":"Awarai Rum Jungle elder-restricted bullroarer making","people_or_site":"Awarai (Warai)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Rum Jungle to Brocks Creek, Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer / Schwirrholz (durchbohrter Corrobboreestick)","source_language":"German","object_description":"No Awarai specimen described; Eylmann's exchange concerns the class of small pierced 'corroboree sticks' he glosses as Schwirrhoelzer or bullroarers.","function_summary":"Manufacture was elder-controlled: old men forbade younger men to make bullroarers; the penalty for a transgressor went unstated.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"eylmann1908_awarai_bullroarer","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/page/n250/mode/1up","page_or_plate":"p. 198 (scan n250)","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"South Australian Museum (Tindale) Awarai tribal-area reference coordinate 131deg25'E x 13deg15'S, mid-way in the Rum Jungle-Brocks Creek country the museum assigns to the group; not a ceremony or camp site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"“May you make bullroarers?” Erhard Eylmann asked an Awarai man in the Rum Jungle country. Yes, came the answer — and the man’s two companions at once set him straight, citing cases in which the old men had ordered younger men to make no bullroarers at all. What punishment awaited a forbidden maker, neither could say. In the far interior a West-Arünta man had described one likely to end in an agonising death; between the north coast and the fifteenth parallel, Eylmann judged, custom was more forgiving.","pull_quote":"Ein West-Arünta sagte mir, daß dem, welcher sich unerlaubter Weise einen Stab dieser Art angefertigt habe, der Kot mit einem Bumerang aus dem After geholt werde.","pull_quote_translation":"A West-Arünta told me that anyone who had made himself a stick of this kind without permission would have the dung drawn out of his anus with a boomerang.","pull_quote_cite":"Eylmann, Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien (1908), p. 198","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Erhard Eylmann, Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1908), p. 198","url":"https://archive.org/details/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/page/n250/mode/1up"}],"source_citations":"Erhard Eylmann, Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1908), p. 198","source_display":"Erhard Eylmann, Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1908), p. 198","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"No Awarai specimen described; Eylmann's exchange concerns the class of small pierced 'corroboree sticks' he glosses as Schwirrhoelzer or bullroarers.","function_display":"Manufacture was elder-controlled: old men forbade younger men to make bullroarers; the penalty for a transgressor went unstated.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"awarai","display_name":"Awarai Rum Jungle elder-restricted bullroarer making","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/wmmissed_10.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/wmmissed_10_thumb.jpg","alt":"A wooden board carved end to end with concentric scrolls and key-pattern.","credit":"Wereldmuseum / NMVW (acc. WM-69882)","license":"CC-BY-SA","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/1092111","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A wooden board carved end to end with concentric scrolls and key-pattern","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--wmmissed_10","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"eylmann1908-001-awarai-warai"}