{"id":"GARFINKEL2009-001","label":"Coso Animal Master figure","people_or_site":"Coso Range rock art, eastern California","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Coso Range Rock Art Complex, China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, eastern California (Inyo/Kern county line)","macroregion":"North America / Great Basin","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Pecked petroglyph, Patterned Body Anthropomorph (PBA) Fig. 6h: a patterned, cross-hatched torso figure with taloned, bird-like feet and outstretched arms. The bent right arm ends in a long, slender rod attached to a bulbous terminal object; a separate wavy line descends from the other arm. No cord, no arc of motion, and no separate performer are shown; the object is one element held by the figure itself.","function_summary":"The possible bullroarer is held by a Coso Patterned Body Anthropomorph interpreted as a supernatural Animal Master within a hunting-religion complex; the rod could also be a club, rattle or bolo.","attestation_type":"rock_art_depiction","source_key":"garfinkel_austin_earle_williams2009_coso_pba_fig6h","source_type":"academic_article_pdf","source_url":"https://rockartresearch.com/index.php/rock/article/download/43/40/81","page_or_plate":"Rock Art Research 26.2 (2009), p. 182, Fig. 6h","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Coso Range-level anchor, China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station. The article's shared caption for Figs 6-8 places Fig. 6h among the rock art galleries of Little Petroglyph, Big Petroglyph or Sheep Canyon without resolving which, so no canyon-specific coordinate is used; this point should be read as the range, not the panel.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A patterned being stands in the Coso rock art with taloned bird feet and a long, bulb-tipped rod. Garfinkel and his co-authors read figures of this kind as possible images of the Animal Master, a supernatural keeper of game within a hunting religion and its animal ceremonies. The rod may be a bullroarer — or a club, rattle, or hunting bolo. Its religious world is clearer than the object in its hand.","pull_quote":"Sometimes the long rod is attached to a bulbous object that may be meant to depict a club, bullroarer, rattle or hunting bolo (Fig. 6h).","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Garfinkel, Austin, Earle and Williams, Rock Art Research 26.2 (2009), p. 182","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"rock_art","date_display":"Before c. AD 1300","date_qualification":"Dating of the Coso patterned-body style; figure not directly dated.","date_basis":"stylistic","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"garfinkel_austin_earle_williams2009_coso_pba_fig6h, Garfinkel et al. 2009 pp. 182–183 and fig. 6h","sources":[{"citation":"Alan P. Garfinkel, Donald R. Austin, David Earle and Harold Williams (Wokod), \"Myth, Ritual and Rock Art: Coso Decorated Animal-Humans and the Animal Master,\" Rock Art Research 26(2) (2009), pp. 182-183, fig. 6h","url":"https://rockartresearch.com/index.php/rock/article/download/43/40/81"}],"source_citations":"Alan P. Garfinkel, Donald R. Austin, David Earle and Harold Williams (Wokod), \"Myth, Ritual and Rock Art: Coso Decorated Animal-Humans and the Animal Master,\" Rock Art Research 26(2) (2009), pp. 182-183, fig. 6h","source_display":"Alan P. Garfinkel, Donald R. Austin, David Earle and Harold Williams (Wokod), \"Myth, Ritual and Rock Art: Coso Decorated Animal-Humans and the Animal Master,\" Rock Art Research 26(2) (2009), pp. 182-183, fig. 6h","date_citation_display":"Garfinkel et al. 2009 pp. 182–183 and fig. 6h","object_display":"Pecked petroglyph, Patterned Body Anthropomorph (PBA) Fig. 6h: a patterned, cross-hatched torso figure with taloned, bird-like feet and outstretched arms. The bent right arm ends in a long, slender rod attached to a bulbous terminal object; a separate wavy line descends from the other arm. No cord, no arc of motion, and no separate performer are shown; the object is one element held by the figure itself.","function_display":"The possible bullroarer is held by a Coso Patterned Body Anthropomorph interpreted as a supernatural Animal Master within a hunting-religion complex; the rod could also be a club, rattle or bolo.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"rock art depiction","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"coso range","display_name":"Coso Animal Master figure","image":{"full":"assets/objects/GARFINKEL2009-001_coso_fig6h_motif.png","thumb":"assets/objects/GARFINKEL2009-001_coso_fig6h_motif_thumb.png","credit":"Alan P. Garfinkel et al., Rock Art Research 26(2), 2009, fig. 6h","license":"No open license stated; rehosted low-resolution figure for noncommercial research","source_page":"https://rockartresearch.com/index.php/rock/article/download/43/40/81","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Published drawing of the Coso figure with its bulb-ended rod."},"slug":"garfinkel2009-001-coso-range-rock-art-galleries-little-petroglyph-big-petroglyph-or-sheep"}