{"id":"GIFFORDKROEBER1937-001","label":"Icheche cure for thunder-sickness","people_or_site":"Central Coast Pomo of Icheche (Pdahau)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"California, Mendocino County, Garcia River near Point Arena","macroregion":"North America / California","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A bull-roarer swung by a man; its form is not described.","function_summary":"Swung by a man to treat a child made sick by hearing thunder; women were not allowed to see it.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"giffordkroeber1937_pomo_ced","source_type":"culture_element_distribution","source_url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp037-005.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 145, el. 543; p. 186, n. 543; pp. 121, 123","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Old Icheche, on the Garcia River 4 mi above its mouth, about 5 mi NE of Point Arena (p. 121); the Manchester reservation where the people moved in 1902 lies a few hundred yards away.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Icheche on the Garcia River, a child who fell sick from hearing thunder was treated with a bullroarer. A man swung it, and women were not allowed to see it. Icheche stood four miles up from the river mouth, near Point Arena, on the coast of the Central Pomo. Its people let their inland kin of Yokaia come down to the shore for sea foods, and once paid shell-bead money to a Yokaia chief for help in a feud. In 1902 old Icheche was abandoned, and its people moved a few hundred yards downhill to the Manchester reservation.","pull_quote":"Swung in treating child made sick by hearing thunder.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Gifford and Kroeber, 'Culture Element Distributions: IV—Pomo' (1937), p. 186, n. 543.","term_gloss":"Icheche (I'cheche), also Pdahau: the Central Coast Pomo community on the Garcia River; Pda-hau, 'river-mouth', was the older village near the mouth.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"E. W. Gifford and A. L. Kroeber, 'Culture Element Distributions: IV—Pomo', UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 37(4) (1937), pp. 121, 145, 186","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp037-005.pdf"}],"source_citations":"E. W. Gifford and A. L. Kroeber, 'Culture Element Distributions: IV—Pomo', UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 37(4) (1937), pp. 121, 145, 186","source_display":"E. W. Gifford and A. L. Kroeber, 'Culture Element Distributions: IV—Pomo', UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 37(4) (1937), pp. 121, 145, 186","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bull-roarer swung by a man; its form is not described.","function_display":"Swung by a man to treat a child made sick by hearing thunder; women were not allowed to see it.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"central coast","display_name":"Icheche cure for thunder-sickness","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NAMER-006_namer-006-bowers-corded-blade.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAMER-006_namer-006-bowers-corded-blade_thumb.jpg","credit":"Peabody Museum, Harvard / Robert F. Heizer, Some Prehistoric Bullroarers from California Caves, 1960, plate 1c","license":"Rights reserved; no open reuse license located. Peabody Museum photograph reproduced by UC Berkeley; proposed for non-commercial research.","source_page":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucas050-015.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A notched California roarer from Bowers Cave, its cord still tied on.","pool_id":"auto-NAMER-006_namer-006-bowers-corded-blade"},"slug":"giffordkroeber1937-001-central-coast-pomo-of-icheche-pdahau"}