{"id":"HORNE1924-001","label":"Wangkangurru inchitcha bullroarer","people_or_site":"Wangkangurru (Wonkonguru)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Mungeranie / country east of Lake Eyre","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"inchitcha","source_term":"Churinga or bull-roarer","source_language":"English / Wonkonguru name","object_description":"Wooden bullroarer with a drilled hole for its string; large and small forms are sounded. No dimensions or isolated object figure.","function_summary":"Sounded to clear women and children from ceremonial preparation; swung and hidden during Wilyaroo initiation; forbidden for women to see.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"horne_aiston_1924_wonkonguru_inchitcha","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.171353","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 90, 112, 174-175","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Mungeranie source-locality anchor for the recorded ceremonies; not a centroid for all Wangkangurru country.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When Wangkangurru men prepared a rain-making ceremony at Mungeranie, a large inchitcha growled after a woman looked out from her shelter; a smaller one then sent every woman and child away from camp. In the Wilyaroo initiation a leader swung the same bullroarer into a circle of waiting women, thrust it under warm ashes, jerked it out and hid it at once. Horne and Aiston stated the rule plainly: women were not to see it.","pull_quote":"The bull-roarer - not to be seen by women.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Horne and Aiston 1924:174","term_gloss":"inchitcha: Wangkangurru (Wonkonguru) name glossed Churinga or bull-roarer","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","initiation","women_taboo","weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"G. Horne and G. Aiston, Savage Life in Central Australia (1924), pp. 90, 112 and 174-175","url":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.171353"}],"source_citations":"G. Horne and G. Aiston, Savage Life in Central Australia (1924), pp. 90, 112 and 174-175","source_display":"G. Horne and G. Aiston, Savage Life in Central Australia (1924), pp. 90, 112 and 174-175","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden bullroarer with a drilled hole for its string; large and small forms are sounded. No dimensions or isolated object figure.","function_display":"Sounded to clear women and children from ceremonial preparation; swung and hidden during Wilyaroo initiation; forbidden for women to see.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wangkangurru","display_name":"Wangkangurru inchitcha bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/wereldmuseum_129.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/wereldmuseum_129_thumb.jpg","alt":"A Luritja red-ochred wooden bullroarer with incised circular and wavy motifs and dark cord wrapped around one end.","credit":"Wereldmuseum / NMVW (acc. TM-2693-39)","license":"","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/88140","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Luritja bullroarer worked in red ochre."},"slug":"horne1924-001-wangkangurru-wonkonguru"}