{"id":"MADDOCK1978-001","label":"Dalabon Lumaluma bullroarer","people_or_site":"Dalabon (Ngalkbun)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Southern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A bullroarer made in myth by a bird to stand in for Lumaluma, the snake-like All-Mother.","function_summary":"Sounded in the Gunabibi as the voice of Lumaluma, the snake-like All-Mother who once swallowed the ceremony's dancers; in the Gunabibi the novices are said to be swallowed by her.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"maddock1978_rainbow_serpent_introduction","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110807165.1","page_or_plate":"Maddock 1976:166 (Dalabon Lumaluma myth); Maddock 1978:11-12 (Dalabon Jingana and Lumaluma myths); 1978:104 (Lumaluma retold); 1978:7 (Gunabibi bull-roarers sounding in concealment)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Bulman (Gulin Gulin), southern Arnhem Land, used as a territory-level anchor for Dalabon country; the Lumaluma myth names Balbonara (Maddock 1976:166) as the place where these events happened, but its location is not given in the passage.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Dalabon of southern Arnhem Land tell of a serpent who was mother to all Aboriginal people. As Lumaluma she lived in the salt water and swallowed the men given to her in the Gunabibi, vomiting back only their bones. A father and son stopped feeding her and put bullroarers in her place. When she next spoke, a left-handed night bird caught her voice by swinging one, a feat likened to recording a voice on tape. Lumaluma stayed in the sea, and the bird swung her voice south as the Gunabibi spread.","pull_quote":"When next she spoke a left-handed nocturnal bird caught her voice by swinging a bullroarer.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Maddock 1976:166","term_gloss":"Lumaluma: the Dalabon name of a snake-like All-Mother, Jingana or a version of her, whose voice is the bullroarer.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","snake","initiation","women_special","female_priority_myth"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":true,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Kenneth Maddock, 'Communication and Change in Mythology', in N. Peterson (ed.), Tribes and Boundaries in Australia (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1976), p. 166 (the Dalabon Lumaluma myth: bullroarers put in her place, a left-handed night bird catches her voice by swinging one); Kenneth Maddock, 'Introduction', in Ira R. Buchler and Kenneth Maddock (eds), The Rainbow Serpent: A Chromatic Piece (The Hague: Mouton, 1978), pp. 7, 11-12; and Maddock, 'Metaphysics in a Mythical View of the World', same volume, p. 104 ('The bull-roarer is Lumaluma')","url":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110807165.1"}],"source_citations":"Kenneth Maddock, 'Communication and Change in Mythology', in N. Peterson (ed.), Tribes and Boundaries in Australia (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1976), p. 166 (the Dalabon Lumaluma myth: bullroarers put in her place, a left-handed night bird catches her voice by swinging one); Kenneth Maddock, 'Introduction', in Ira R. Buchler and Kenneth Maddock (eds), The Rainbow Serpent: A Chromatic Piece (The Hague: Mouton, 1978), pp. 7, 11-12; and Maddock, 'Metaphysics in a Mythical View of the World', same volume, p. 104 ('The bull-roarer is Lumaluma')","source_display":"Kenneth Maddock, 'Communication and Change in Mythology', in N. Peterson (ed.), Tribes and Boundaries in Australia (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1976), p. 166 (the Dalabon Lumaluma myth: bullroarers put in her place, a left-handed night bird catches her voice by swinging one); Kenneth Maddock, 'Introduction', in Ira R. Buchler and…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer made in myth by a bird to stand in for Lumaluma, the snake-like All-Mother.","function_display":"Sounded in the Gunabibi as the voice of Lumaluma, the snake-like All-Mother who once swallowed the ceremony's dancers; in the Gunabibi the novices are said to be swallowed by her.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"dalabon","display_name":"Dalabon Lumaluma bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SPENCER1914-001_nullakun_kunapippi_plateII_figs1_2_clean.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SPENCER1914-001_nullakun_kunapippi_plateII_figs1_2_clean_thumb.jpg","credit":"Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory (Macmillan, 1914), Plate II figs. 1-2","license":"Public domain (Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory, 1914)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/cu31924028623076","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Spencer's Nullakun kunapippi pair, from the Dalabon's southern neighbours.","pool_id":"auto-SPENCER1914-001_nullakun_kunapippi_plateII_figs1_2_clean"},"slug":"maddock1978-001-dalabon-ngalkbun"}