{"id":"GIFFORD1940-006","label":"A roarer women might watch","people_or_site":"Llanero (Gusgayi) division, Jicarilla Apache","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Cimarron, New Mexico","macroregion":"North America","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden blade about 15 by 3 inches, whirled on a cord about three feet long.","function_summary":"Used as a toy by men and boys; women were allowed to see it in use.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"gifford1940_llanero_jicarilla","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84148/files/ucar004-002.pdf","page_or_plate":"pp. 58-59, 151-152","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Cimarron community/regional anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Jicarilla Apache of northern New Mexico were two divisions: the Olleros of the mountains and the Llanero, the plains-side people, who followed buffalo out onto the eastern grass and wintered in the Cimarron country. The Llanero — Gusgayi — put the bullroarer in the hands of men and boys as a plaything, and women were free to watch it swung. Elsewhere the instrument was a shaman's property, hidden from onlookers. Here it was fifteen inches of wood on three feet of cord, and nobody had to look away.","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":"E. W. Gifford, 'Culture Element Distributions: XII, Apache-Pueblo,' Anthropological Records 4:1 (1940), pp. 58-59 and 151-152","url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84148/files/ucar004-002.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013035153/https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84148/files/ucar004-002.pdf"}],"source_citations":"E. W. Gifford, 'Culture Element Distributions: XII, Apache-Pueblo,' Anthropological Records 4:1 (1940), pp. 58-59 and 151-152","source_display":"E. W. Gifford, 'Culture Element Distributions: XII, Apache-Pueblo,' Anthropological Records 4:1 (1940), pp. 58-59 and 151-152","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden blade about 15 by 3 inches, whirled on a cord about three feet long.","function_display":"Used as a toy by men and boys; women were allowed to see it in use.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"llanero division","display_name":"A roarer women might watch","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/MUS2026-266_penn_38702.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/thumbs/MUS2026-266_penn_38702_thumb.jpg","credit":"Courtesy of the Penn Museum (object 38702)","license":"Penn Museum — educational/non-commercial use","source_page":"https://collections.penn.museum/collections/object/285639","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Plain Hopi wooden slat with long cord, Penn Museum 38702","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest2--MUS2026-266_penn_38702"},"slug":"gifford1940-006-llanero-gusgayi-division-jicarilla-apache"}