{"id":"MAT1898-011","label":"Clarence Richmond dhooanbooka yoolundry dhalguñgun","people_or_site":"Clarence and Richmond River tribes","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Clarence and Richmond Rivers","macroregion":"Australia / Southeast","local_name":"dhooanbooka / yoolundry / dhalguñgun","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"Large and small bullroarers used among the Clarence, Richmond, and adjacent districts; Mathews describes carved markings and string attachment.","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 figs. 12-13 (with 15); initiation framing in section opening; moonibear/Burbung equivalence","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":"Among the Clarence and Richmond River tribes of northern New South Wales, the surveyor R. H. Mathews recorded a matched pair of initiation bull-roarers: a large one, nearly two feet long, called the dhooanbooka or yoolundry, and a small companion, the dhalguñgun. Both carried the same carving — about half a dozen V-shaped devices running down the rounded face, points aimed toward the broad end, flanked by rows of dots, with a nick cut in the small end to seize the whirling string and a shallow pit and transverse lines on the hollowed back. Mathews placed every instrument on his plate within \"the prominent use assigned to the bull-roarer in the initiation ceremonies\" of the Kamilaroi and other tribes, and noted that the small dhalguñgun was the exact counterpart of the moonibear — the lesser roarer \"sounded at the Burbung ground during the continuance of the ceremonies of initiation.\"","pull_quote":"Fig. 12 represents the dhooanbooka or yoolundry, the bull-roarer in use among the Clarence and Richmond River tribes and those of adjacent districts.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Mathews 1898, \"Bull-roarers used by the Australian Aborigines,\" Journal of the Anthropological Institute 27:52-60 (= Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales, 1907)","term_gloss":"dhooanbooka / yoolundry = the large bull-roarer of the Clarence and Richmond River tribes; dhalguñgun = its small companion bull-roarer. \"Bora\" and \"Burbung\" are regional names for the male initiation ceremony at which such instruments were swung.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Mathews, R. H. 1898, \"Bull-roarers used by the Australian Aborigines,\" Journal of the Anthropological Institute 27:52-60; reprinted in Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales (1907)","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"}],"source_citations":"Mathews, R. H. 1898, \"Bull-roarers used by the Australian Aborigines,\" Journal of the Anthropological Institute 27:52-60; reprinted in Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales (1907)","source_display":"Mathews, R. H. 1898, \"Bull-roarers used by the Australian Aborigines,\" Journal of the Anthropological Institute 27:52-60; reprinted in Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales (1907)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Large and small bullroarers used among the Clarence, Richmond, and adjacent districts; Mathews describes carved markings and string attachment.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"clarence","display_name":"Clarence Richmond dhooanbooka yoolundry dhalguñgun","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/MAT1898-011.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/MAT1898-011_thumb.jpg","alt":"Plate 9, fig. 12: the large dhooanbooka / yoolundry bullroarer, with a notched narrow end, two holes and a band of straight transverse lines across its broad face.","credit":"R. H. Mathews, Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales, 1907, Plate 9 figs. 12, 13 & 15","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":"Plate 9, fig. 12: the large hatched bull-roarer dhooanbooka / yoolundry."},"slug":"mat1898-011-clarence-and-richmond-river-tribes"}