{"id":"HOWITT1904-004","label":"White Cliffs roarers for fish and honey","people_or_site":"White Cliffs tribe, K'gari (Butchulla country)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"White Cliffs, K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland","macroregion":"Australia / Southeast Queensland","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarers","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bull-roarers; form not recorded.","function_summary":"Swung by both men and women in a ceremony held to ensure plentiful supplies of fish and honey.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"howitt1904_native_tribes","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/nativetribesofso00howiuoft","page_or_plate":"p. 400","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"West coast of K'gari, where the White Cliffs lie (named as a Maryborough-district division in Howitt's tribal list, p. 59); approximate locality, not a ceremony ground.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At White Cliffs on K'gari, the island the colonists called Fraser, a tribe held a ceremony to bring plenty of fish and honey, and the women swung the bull-roarers beside the men. Across the strait, at the mainland Dora, women ran from the camp at the first roar, told that listening would deafen them and looking back would blind them. On the island, for the food of the sea and the bush, they whirled it themselves.","pull_quote":"A tribe at White Cliffs, Frazer's Island, on the coast of Queensland, held a ceremony for the purpose of ensuring plentiful supplies of fish and honey, in which both men and women took part, swinging bull-roarers.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"A. W. Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia (1904), p. 400","term_gloss":"","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_special"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":true,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"A. W. Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia (1904), p. 400","url":"https://archive.org/details/nativetribesofso00howiuoft"}],"source_citations":"A. W. Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia (1904), p. 400","source_display":"A. W. Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia (1904), p. 400","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bull-roarers; form not recorded.","function_display":"Swung by both men and women in a ceremony held to ensure plentiful supplies of fish and honey.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"white cliffs","display_name":"White Cliffs roarers for fish and honey","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_11_05/aalders_cq.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_11_05/thumbs/aalders_cq.jpg","alt":"A long red-brown blade incised with two interlaced wavy bands, a twisted cord at one end, on white.","credit":"Aalders Auctions, lot 99 (ex Douglas Newton and Charles Warren collections)","source_page":"https://www.findlotsonline.com/auction-lot-details/1158206/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Central Queensland bullroarer incised with braided bands.","pool_id":"auto-hunt_2026_11_05--aalders_cq"},"slug":"howitt1904-004-white-cliffs-tribe-k-gari-butchulla-country"}