{"id":"MAT1898-009","label":"Shoalhaven southeast coast mooroonga","people_or_site":"Shoalhaven and southeast coast tribes","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Shoalhaven River and southeast coast NSW","macroregion":"Australia / Southeast","local_name":"mooroonga / jummagong","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"Mooroonga bullroarer used at Bunan initiation ceremonies of the Shoalhaven and southeast coast tribes.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"mathews1898bullroarers","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Aborigines_of_New_South_Wales","page_or_plate":"JAI 27:52-60; Plate fig. 11","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"representative coordinate for named people, ceremony, river, or region in Mathews","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The mooroonga of the tribes along the Shoalhaven River and the south-east coast of New South Wales was the smaller of two bull-roarers: it mustered the tribes and was worked near the women's camp, carried by the ceremonial messenger in his bag beside a quartz crystal, while the great jummagong was reserved for the men away in the bush with the boys — sounded impressively at the novice's side as his tooth was chiselled out. On the Bunan ground the old men heaped up loose earth into a figure of Dharamoolun eight feet long, laid a quartz crystal on its head, and danced around it with arms outstretched, crying \"Dharamoolun! Dharamoolun!\", the novices waving their arms in imitation. At the end both instruments were swung before the boys, who were told that this was what they had been hearing since the large ring, warned on pain of death not to reveal it, and invited to swing the roarers themselves.","pull_quote":"The drawing shows a mooroonga, made of stringybark wood, 13 inches long, 2 7/16 inches wide, and 5/16 of an inch thick. In the smaller end is a hole for the string, and at the wide end there is a large triangular-shaped notch cut out of the wood, a peculiarity I have also observed in the bull-roarers (mundjeegong) used by the Wiradthuri tribes located on the upper Murrumbidgee River.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"R. H. Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales (1907), Fig. 11","term_gloss":"Mooroonga: the bull-roarer of the Shoalhaven River and south-east coast tribes of New South Wales, sounded at their Bunan initiation.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"R. H. Mathews, 'Bullroarers Used by the Australian Aborigines,' Journal of the Anthropological Institute 27 (1898), pp. 52-60, plate fig. 11"},{"citation":"R. H. Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales (1907), fig. 11","url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Aborigines_of_New_South_Wales","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20241217225048/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Aborigines_of_New_South_Wales"},{"citation":"R. H. Mathews, 'The Bunan Ceremony of New South Wales,' American Anthropologist 9 (1896): 327-344"}],"source_citations":"R. H. Mathews, 'Bullroarers Used by the Australian Aborigines,' Journal of the Anthropological Institute 27 (1898), pp. 52-60, plate fig. 11; R. H. Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales (1907), fig. 11; R. H. Mathews, 'The Bunan Ceremony of New South Wales,' American Anthropologist 9 (1896): 327-344","source_display":"R. H. Mathews, 'Bullroarers Used by the Australian Aborigines,' Journal of the Anthropological Institute 27 (1898), pp. 52-60, plate fig. 11; R. H. Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales (1907), fig. 11; R. H. Mathews, 'The Bunan Ceremony of New South Wales,' American Anthropologist 9 (1896): 327-344","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Mooroonga bullroarer used at Bunan initiation ceremonies of the Shoalhaven and southeast coast tribes.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"shoalhaven","display_name":"Shoalhaven southeast coast mooroonga","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/MAT1898-009.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/MAT1898-009_thumb.jpg","alt":"Mathews’s outline of a Shoalhaven mooroonga, a long flat blade with a round hole near one end and a deeply forked notch at the other.","credit":"R. H. Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales, 1907, Plate 9 fig. 11","license":"Public domain (published 1907)","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notes_on_the_Aborigines_of_New_South_Wales_-_Plate_9_Bull-roarers_used_by_the_Australian_Aborigines.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Mathews’s Plate 9, fig. 11: Shoalhaven mooroonga bullroarer."},"slug":"mat1898-009-shoalhaven-and-southeast-coast-tribes"}