{"id":"JACKSON2016-001","label":"Biripi blades as the Holy Spirit's voice","people_or_site":"Biripi (painter); Australian and New Zealand Catholic primary principals' associations","country_current":"New Zealand","historic_region":"Auckland (presentation); painted by a Biripi elder, mid-north coast of New South Wales, Australia","macroregion":"Oceania / New Zealand","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarers","source_language":"English","object_description":"Two wooden bullroarers painted by a Biripi pastor and tribal elder, given by the Australian Catholic Primary Principals' Association to its New Zealand counterpart.","function_summary":"Presented at the first joint meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Catholic primary principals' associations, Auckland, 31 May 2016, as the voice of the Holy Spirit at their meetings, with an elder's story of the Trinity, \"Gulambara and the voice of Yuludarra\".","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"jackson2016_acppa_nzcppa_bullroarers","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://jennyljackson.blogspot.com/2016/06/united-acppa-nzcppa-candles-tokotoko.html","page_or_plate":"section 'Bullroarers'","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Auckland city centre; the post names the city of the meeting but not the venue. The blades were painted in Biripi country, New South Wales, place not given.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When the Catholic primary principals of Australia and New Zealand first met together, in Auckland on 31 May 2016, the gifts went both ways. The New Zealanders gave a tokotoko, a Māori talking stick. The Australians brought two candles, and two bullroarers painted by a pastor and tribal elder of the Biripi, the people of the Manning and Hastings rivers in New South Wales. With them came a story an elder had written about Aboriginal Catholic spirituality and the Trinity, \"Gulambara and the voice of Yuludarra.\" The blades, the Australian president said, meant that both associations would have the voice of the Holy Spirit at their meetings, now and in the future.","pull_quote":"will have the voice of the Holy Spirit at their meetings now and in the future","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Jenny Jackson, “United: ACPPA & NZCPPA candles, a Tokotoko and bullroarers,” 3 June 2016","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Jenny Jackson, “United: ACPPA & NZCPPA candles, a Tokotoko and bullroarers,” blog post, 3 June 2016","url":"https://jennyljackson.blogspot.com/2016/06/united-acppa-nzcppa-candles-tokotoko.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260221113627/https://jennyljackson.blogspot.com/2016/06/united-acppa-nzcppa-candles-tokotoko.html"}],"source_citations":"Jenny Jackson, “United: ACPPA & NZCPPA candles, a Tokotoko and bullroarers,” blog post, 3 June 2016","source_display":"Jenny Jackson, “United: ACPPA & NZCPPA candles, a Tokotoko and bullroarers,” blog post, 3 June 2016","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two wooden bullroarers painted by a Biripi pastor and tribal elder, given by the Australian Catholic Primary Principals' Association to its New Zealand counterpart.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"biripi","display_name":"Biripi blades as the Holy Spirit's voice","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/MAT1898-008.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/MAT1898-008_thumb.jpg","alt":"Mathews’s fig. 9, the Hunter–Macleay goonandhakeea: an outline drawing of a broad tapered blade with a small hole near its rounded narrow end.","credit":"R. H. Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales (1907), pl. 9 (fig. 9)","license":"Public domain (published 1907)","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notes_on_the_Aborigines_of_New_South_Wales_-_Plate_9_Bull-roarers_used_by_the_Australian_Aborigines.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Mathews’ drawing of a Hunter–Macleay goonandhakeea, 1907.","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--MAT1898-008"},"slug":"jackson2016-001-biripi-painter-australian-and-new-zealand-catholic-primary-principals-asso"}