{"id":"LEDEN1915-001","label":"Central Inuit Chesterfield Inlet caribou-bone bullroarer CMH IV-C-1402","people_or_site":"Central Inuit","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Chesterfield Inlet / Kivalliq, Nunavut","macroregion":"North America / Arctic","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Caribou-bone plate with a seal-skin cord through one end; 25.9 x 7.8 x 0.9 cm. Canadian Museum of History IV-C-1402.","function_summary":"No function recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"cmh_iv_c_1402","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/39687","page_or_plate":"IV-C-1402","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Chesterfield Inlet / Igluligaarjuk community coordinate; CMH names the municipality as object origin.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"This whirring blade came south with a song collector. Christian Leden, the Norwegian ethnomusicologist, spent 1913-1916 on the west coast of Hudson Bay filling wax cylinders with Inuit song — 'their intervals were so different from ours,' he wrote, 'that it was almost impossible to retain them' — and at Chesterfield Inlet, Igluligaarjuk, 'the place of few houses,' then a whalers' rendezvous with a brand-new trading post, he acquired this caribou-bone plate on its seal-skin cord. Inland, among the Caribou Inuit, such roarers were children's toys called anoreziut; this one kept neither its name nor its story.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Canadian Museum of History, IV-C-1402 / artifact 39687.","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Canadian Museum of History IV-C-1402 / artifact 39687: 'Bullroarer', Central Inuit, origin Chesterfield Inlet; collected by Christian Leden (collector no. 430) by 1915; caribou bone and seal skin; photos D2003-12840/-12841","url":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/39687","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20180122012738/https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/39687"}],"source_citations":"Canadian Museum of History IV-C-1402 / artifact 39687: 'Bullroarer', Central Inuit, origin Chesterfield Inlet; collected by Christian Leden (collector no. 430) by 1915; caribou bone and seal skin; photos D2003-12840/-12841","source_display":"Canadian Museum of History IV-C-1402 / artifact 39687: 'Bullroarer', Central Inuit, origin Chesterfield Inlet; collected by Christian Leden (collector no. 430) by 1915; caribou bone and seal skin; photos D2003-12840/-12841","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Caribou-bone plate with a seal-skin cord through one end; 25.9 x 7.8 x 0.9 cm. Canadian Museum of History IV-C-1402.","function_display":"No function recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"central inuit","display_name":"Central Inuit Chesterfield Inlet caribou-bone bullroarer CMH IV-C-1402","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LEDEN1915-001_cmh_iv_c_1402.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LEDEN1915-001_cmh_iv_c_1402_thumb.jpg","credit":"Canadian Museum of History, IV-C-1402 (coll. Christian Leden)","license":"© Canadian Museum of History — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research (no open licence stated)","source_page":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/39687","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Chesterfield Inlet plate itself — serrated caribou bone with its single seal-skin cord.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/LEDEN1915-001_cmh_iv_c_994.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LEDEN1915-001_cmh_iv_c_994_thumb.jpg","credit":"Canadian Museum of History, IV-C-994 (coll. Christian Leden, no. 345)","license":"© Canadian Museum of History — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/39351/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Another Chesterfield Inlet roarer Leden collected — pine, serrated, on its sinew cord."}]},"slug":"leden1915-001-central-inuit"}