{"id":"HAMMOND1933-001","label":"South-West Australian woondah","people_or_site":"South-West Australian Aboriginal people (Noongar country)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"South-West Western Australia (Noongar country)","macroregion":"Australia / Western Australia","local_name":"woondah","source_term":"woondah","source_language":"","object_description":"A wooden slat about 14 x 1.5 inches with one terminal cord, drawn among the implements plate of Hammond's Winjan's People (1933).","function_summary":"Swung to make a buzzing noise; among the Bibbulmun of the south-west, Daisy Bates wrote, children whirled bullroarers in play.","attestation_type":"historical_text","source_key":"review2026","source_type":"historical_memoir","source_url":"https://www.treloars.com/pages/books/138102/j-e-hammond/winjans-people-the-story-of-the-south-west-australian-aborigines-edited-by-paul-hasluck","page_or_plate":"implements plate (drawn from Hammond's descriptions)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad south-west regional anchor; Hammond attests the region, not one community.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The woondah takes its place among the spears and throwing-sticks in Jesse Hammond's record of the Aboriginal people of Western Australia's south-west: a narrow slat, swung on a string for its buzzing roar. Hammond wrote from a long working life in the district, and had the implements he described drawn for the book — the woondah among them, labelled in his caption, in plain settler English, a bull-roarer.","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":"J. E. Hammond, Winjan's People: the story of the South-West Australian Aborigines (Perth: Imperial Printing Co., 1933), implements plate: 'WOONDAH (OR \"BULL-ROARER\") WHICH WAS SWUNG ON A STRING TO MAKE A BUZZING NOISE (ABOUT 14 X 1 1/2 IN.)'","url":"https://www.treloars.com/pages/books/138102/j-e-hammond/winjans-people-the-story-of-the-south-west-australian-aborigines-edited-by-paul-hasluck","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240301014157/https://www.treloars.com/pages/books/138102/j-e-hammond/winjans-people-the-story-of-the-south-west-australian-aborigines-edited-by-paul-hasluck"}],"source_citations":"J. E. Hammond, Winjan's People: the story of the South-West Australian Aborigines (Perth: Imperial Printing Co., 1933), implements plate: 'WOONDAH (OR \"BULL-ROARER\") WHICH WAS SWUNG ON A STRING TO MAKE A BUZZING NOISE (ABOUT 14 X 1 1/2 IN.)'","source_display":"J. E. Hammond, Winjan's People: the story of the South-West Australian Aborigines (Perth: Imperial Printing Co., 1933), implements plate: 'WOONDAH (OR \"BULL-ROARER\") WHICH WAS SWUNG ON A STRING TO MAKE A BUZZING NOISE (ABOUT 14 X 1 1/2 IN.)'","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden slat about 14 x 1.5 inches with one terminal cord, drawn among the implements plate of Hammond's Winjan's People (1933).","function_display":"Swung to make a buzzing noise; among the Bibbulmun of the south-west, Daisy Bates wrote, children whirled bullroarers in play.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"historical text","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"south west","display_name":"South-West Australian woondah","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAMMOND1933-001_hammond1933-001-woondah-implements.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAMMOND1933-001_hammond1933-001-woondah-implements_thumb.jpg","alt":"Hammond’s drawing of a broad woondah blade with zigzag notches along both long edges and a cord loop at one end.","credit":"J. E. Hammond, Winjan’s People (1933), Aboriginal Weapons and Implements plate; photograph courtesy Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers, item 138102","license":"Rights reserved (© Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers photograph; 1933 drawing copyright status unconfirmed); rehosted for non-commercial research.","source_page":"https://www.treloars.com/pages/books/138102/j-e-hammond/winjans-people-the-story-of-the-south-west-australian-aborigines-edited-by-paul-hasluck","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Woondah, the corded bullroarer in Hammond’s implements plate (1933)."},"slug":"hammond1933-001-south-west-australian-aboriginal-people-noongar-country"}