{"id":"GIFFORD1940-009","label":"It came off the string twice","people_or_site":"San Carlos Apache, Pinal band","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Pinal band country / San Carlos, Arizona","macroregion":"North America","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden blade about 10 by 1.5 inches, whirled on a cord about three feet long.","function_summary":"A clown whirled it to announce the masked gan impersonators, then through the dance; it was also sounded in curing.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"gifford1940_san_carlos_pinal","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84148/files/ucar004-002.pdf","page_or_plate":"pp. 2, 58-59, 151-152","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Pinal-band birthplace ridge about 12 miles southeast of Miami; curing site not specified.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Gifford watched this one himself. At a Pinal-band curing performance in the San Carlos Apache country of east-central Arizona, the bullroarer flew off its string — and then, once it had been fetched back and set going again, flew off a second time. Both times spectators went after it and returned it, which tells you how public the curing was and how many people were standing close enough to chase a loose blade. Ten inches by an inch and a half, on three feet of cord. The Pinal band whirled it in dance as well.","pull_quote":"In [San Carlos] curing performance witnessed, bull-roarer came off string twice, retrieved by spectators.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Gifford 1940:152","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"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. 2, 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. 2, 58-59 and 151-152","source_display":"E. W. Gifford, 'Culture Element Distributions: XII, Apache-Pueblo,' Anthropological Records 4:1 (1940), pp. 2, 58-59 and 151-152","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden blade about 10 by 1.5 inches, whirled on a cord about three feet long.","function_display":"A clown whirled it to announce the masked gan impersonators, then through the dance; it was also sounded in curing.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"san carlos","display_name":"It came off the string twice","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/deep_12.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/deep_12_thumb.jpg","alt":"A pale Hopi wooden slat in Oslo, attached at one end to a long braided cord.","credit":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Etnografisk) (UEM29633/b)","license":"CC BY-SA","source_page":"https://api.dimu.org/artifact/uuid/83b81ea1-3b65-4e2d-96ab-8009bbcf04d1","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Pale wooden slat on a long braided cord, Oslo","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--deep_12"},"slug":"gifford1940-009-san-carlos-apache-pinal-band"}