{"id":"JENNESS1922-001","label":"Copper Inuit imilguptak (Jenness / CMH IV-D-462)","people_or_site":"Copper Inuit (Inuinnait), Coronation Gulf","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Coronation Gulf / Northwest Territories","macroregion":"North America / Arctic","local_name":"imilguptak","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"Serrated animal-bone blade on a single mammal-sinew cord, 22.0 x 5.0 x 0.5 cm — CMH IV-D-462, collected by Diamond Jenness, 1916 or earlier.","function_summary":"Children's toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"jenness_1922_copper_inuit","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/reportofcanadian12cana","page_or_plate":"Jenness 1922, p. 220; CMH IV-D-462","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Bernard Harbour / Coronation Gulf anchor — the Canadian Arctic Expedition Southern Party's base among the Copper Inuit; the CMH record gives no findspot below 'Northwest Territories'.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Copper Inuit of Coronation Gulf the bull-roarer was a child's thing, and its name was its own: imilguptak, kept carefully apart in Diamond Jenness's account from the nilitak, the buzz. The anthropologist did more than write the word down — the serrated bone blade he collected, still on its sinew cord, sits in the Canadian Museum of History.","pull_quote":"Two other toys, the bull-roarer, imilguptak, and the buzz, nilitak, are also confined to children.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Jenness, The Life of the Copper Eskimos (1922), p. 220","term_gloss":"imilguptak — the Copper Inuit bull-roarer; nilitak, the buzz, is a separate children's toy Jenness knew only from description.","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":"Diamond Jenness, The Life of the Copper Eskimos, Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–18, XII (1922), p. 220","url":"https://archive.org/details/reportofcanadian12cana"},{"citation":"Canadian Museum of History, IV-D-462, Inuinnait bullroarer, collected by Jenness"}],"source_citations":"Diamond Jenness, The Life of the Copper Eskimos, Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–18, XII (1922), p. 220; Canadian Museum of History, IV-D-462, Inuinnait bullroarer, collected by Jenness","source_display":"Diamond Jenness, The Life of the Copper Eskimos, Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–18, XII (1922), p. 220; Canadian Museum of History, IV-D-462, Inuinnait bullroarer, collected by Jenness","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Serrated animal-bone blade on a single mammal-sinew cord, 22.0 x 5.0 x 0.5 cm — CMH IV-D-462, collected by Diamond Jenness, 1916 or earlier.","function_display":"Children's toy.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"copper inuit","display_name":"Copper Inuit imilguptak (Jenness / CMH IV-D-462)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/JENNESS1922-001_cmh_iv_d_462.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/JENNESS1922-001_cmh_iv_d_462_thumb.jpg","credit":"Canadian Museum of History, IV-D-462 (coll. Diamond Jenness)","license":"© Canadian Museum of History — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/24656/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The imilguptak Jenness collected — serrated bone on its sinew cord."},"slug":"jenness1922-001-copper-inuit-inuinnait-coronation-gulf"}