{"id":"LOEB1932-001","label":"Inland Yuki thunder-voice bullroarer","people_or_site":"Inland (Northern) Yuki, southern Round Valley","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Round Valley, Mendocino County","macroregion":"North America / California","local_name":"aelamo'otom","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"Voice of the creator Taikomol, who was equated with Thunder: swung in the winter initiation whenever the instructor spoke of Thunder and Taikomol, and whirled by two men at a patient's doorway to throw the sick into curing trance.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"loeb_1932_western_kuksu","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82065","page_or_plate":"Loeb 1932, pp. 66-68; Foster 1944, p. 210","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Southern Round Valley, Mendocino County.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the inland Yuki of Round Valley the bullroarer breathed thunder. Aelamo'otom, thunder breath, spoke with the voice of Taikomol, the creator, who was Thunder himself; in the winter initiation it swung whenever the instructor's teaching turned to him, and at a sick person's doorway two men whirled the blades until the patient fell into the healing trance. The Yuki could even point to the spring, in Witukomno'm country, where that voice had first come out of the earth.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"aelamo'otom — 'thunder breath' (Loeb); alamol k'ani — 'thunder voice' (Foster).","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"E. M. Loeb, The Western Kuksu Cult, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33(1) (1932), pp. 66-68; G. M. Foster, A Summary of Yuki Culture, Anthropological Records 5:3 (1944), p. 210","url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82065","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013014825/https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/82065"}],"source_citations":"E. M. Loeb, The Western Kuksu Cult, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33(1) (1932), pp. 66-68; G. M. Foster, A Summary of Yuki Culture, Anthropological Records 5:3 (1944), p. 210","source_display":"E. M. Loeb, The Western Kuksu Cult, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33(1) (1932), pp. 66-68; G. M. Foster, A Summary of Yuki Culture, Anthropological Records 5:3 (1944), p. 210","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"inland yuki","display_name":"Inland Yuki thunder-voice bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/MINE2026-079_prm_1911_86_97.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/thumbs/MINE2026-079_prm_1911_86_97_thumb.jpg","alt":"The schoolboys’ ual ual, a small wooden paddle with cotton string tied around its narrow end.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1911.86.97)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39590","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The schoolboys' ual ual: a hand-sized paddle on its cotton string","pool_id":"auto-review_2026_07_18--MINE2026-079_prm_1911_86_97","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-08-11"},"slug":"loeb1932-001-inland-northern-yuki-southern-round-valley"}