{"id":"GRETSCHEL1913-001","label":"Auin ostrich-lure bullroarer, Kaukauveld","people_or_site":"Auin (=Auen / Aokhoe) San, Gobabis-Epukiro","country_current":"Namibia","historic_region":"Gobabis-Epukiro / southern Kaukauveld, German South-West Africa","macroregion":"Africa / Southern Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"German","object_description":"Long light-brown wooden board pointed at both ends, undecorated, on a leather cord; GRASSI Leipzig SAf 01862: 52 cm long (115 cm with cord), 6.5 cm wide, 0.9 cm thick; Hannemann collection, before 1910.","function_summary":"Ostrich-hunting decoy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"review2026","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1745955","page_or_plate":"Gretschel 1913, pp. 89-90, 112; Taf. 29, Abb. 6; SAf 01862","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Gobabis-Epukiro regional anchor for Hannemann's 1909-1910 collecting area; Gretschel names Epukiro, Rietfontein, and Gam but doubts the Gam attribution.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"An Auin hunter swinging this half-meter blade on its leather cord was not making music — he was setting a trap. Its drone mimicked the call of a cock ostrich, and hunters sounded it to coax the hen off her nest and kill her at close quarters. Dr. Hannemann, the government physician at Gobabis, collected it among the Auin of the southern Kaukauveld in 1909–1910.","pull_quote":"Mehr praktische Bedeutung hat das Schwirrholz, ein langes, an beiden Enden zugespitztes Brett, das an einem Faden in der Luft geschwungen wird... Dann gibt es Töne von sich, ähnlich dem Lockruf des männlichen Straußen. Man benutzt es daher häufig auf der Straußenjagd, um das Weibchen aus seinem Nest zu locken und es möglichst aus der Nähe zu erlegen.","pull_quote_translation":"Of more practical importance is the bullroarer, a long board pointed at both ends, swung through the air on a cord... It gives off sounds resembling the luring call of the male ostrich. It is therefore often used in the ostrich hunt, to lure the female from her nest and shoot her at the closest possible range.","pull_quote_cite":"Gretschel 1913, p. 112","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"E. Gretschel, 'Die Buschmannsammlung Hannemann', Jahrbuch des Städtischen Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig V (1911/12, publ. 1913), pp. 89–90, 112, Taf. 29 Abb. 6; GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, SAf 01862","url":"https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1745955","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250623145144/https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1745955"}],"source_citations":"E. Gretschel, 'Die Buschmannsammlung Hannemann', Jahrbuch des Städtischen Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig V (1911/12, publ. 1913), pp. 89–90, 112, Taf. 29 Abb. 6; GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, SAf 01862","source_display":"E. Gretschel, 'Die Buschmannsammlung Hannemann', Jahrbuch des Städtischen Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig V (1911/12, publ. 1913), pp. 89–90, 112, Taf. 29 Abb. 6; GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, SAf 01862","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Long light-brown wooden board pointed at both ends, undecorated, on a leather cord; GRASSI Leipzig SAf 01862: 52 cm long (115 cm with cord), 6.5 cm wide, 0.9 cm thick; Hannemann collection, before 1910.","function_display":"Ostrich-hunting decoy.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"auin auen","display_name":"Auin ostrich-lure bullroarer, Kaukauveld","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SAFR-003_weltmuseum_vo85396_san.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SAFR-003_weltmuseum_vo85396_san_thumb.jpg","alt":"San thunder stick from Oas, Omaheke: a broad wooden blade with a rounded end, leather thong wound near the tapered end and a short connected stick below.","credit":"© KHM-Museumsverband (Weltmuseum Wien), inv. 85396","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (KHM-Museumsverband / Weltmuseum Wien) — ©KHM-Museumsverband credit required; rehosted low-res","source_page":"https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/en/objects/schwirrholz-912191","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"San thunder stick on leather thong, Oas, Omaheke","pool_id":"auto-SAFR-003_weltmuseum_vo85396_san"},"slug":"gretschel1913-001-auin-auen-aokhoe-san-gobabis-epukiro"}