{"id":"LOEB1929-030","label":"Quinault toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Quinault","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Washington coast","macroregion":"North America / Northwest Coast","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"A child's toy; rattles were the ceremonial sounder.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"loeb1929","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82839/files/ucp025-004.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 274","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"representative on-land anchor at Quinault (regional coordinate fell just offshore of the rendered coastline); not an exact findspot","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"For the Quinault of the Washington coast the bullroarer was a child's toy and nothing more. In the rites of their secret society the spirits spoke through rattles. Farther north, the Kwakiutl whirled the same instrument in secret during the winter dance, four times over, as the voice of the spirit come to carry off a novice.","pull_quote":"Among the Quinault the novice is cut and bones are thrust through the flesh of the arms.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Edwin M. Loeb, Tribal Initiations and Secret Societies (1929), p. 274","term_gloss":"","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":"Loeb 1929, Tribal Initiations and Secret Societies, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(3):249-288","url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82839/files/ucp025-004.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250411091854/https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82839/files/ucp025-004.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Loeb 1929, Tribal Initiations and Secret Societies, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(3):249-288","source_display":"Loeb 1929, Tribal Initiations and Secret Societies, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 25(3):249-288","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"A child's toy; rattles were the ceremonial sounder.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"quinault","display_name":"Quinault toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/rbcm_2138_nuuchahnulth_bullroarer.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/rbcm_2138_nuuchahnulth_bullroarer_thumb.jpg","alt":"Nuu-chah-nulth bullroarer, 1912, with a broad leaf-shaped cedar blade, cord and separate grooved handle stick.","credit":"Royal BC Museum, RBCM 2138; photo via Grant Keddie, 'Bullroarers in the Indigenous Collections of the Royal B.C. Museum' (2023)","license":"Rights not stated (Royal BC Museum ToU-only regime); rehosted low-res from the museum curator's research publication","source_page":"https://grantkeddie.com/2023/02/bullroarers-in-the-indigenous-collections-of-the-royal-b-c-museum/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Nuu-chah-nulth cedar blade with cord and handle, RBCM","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--rbcm_2138_nuuchahnulth_bullroarer"},"slug":"loeb1929-030-quinault"}