{"id":"MATHIASSEN1928-001","label":"Palm-sized Iglulik plaything","people_or_site":"Iglulik Inuit","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Iglulik / Igloolik, Nunavut","macroregion":"North America","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Small wooden blade, 7.8 by 1.8 cm, flat and slightly curved, with deep notches cut in the edges and a 17 cm sinew thread through a hole at the narrow end, ending in a noose.","function_summary":"A child's plaything, recorded among Iglulik toys.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"mathiassen1928_iglulik","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Material_Culture_of_the_Iglulik_Eskimos/Chapter_10","page_or_plate":"Chapter 10, playthings section","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Igloolik community anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Iglulik children played at the work waiting for them: little harpoons, bows and arrows, model kayaks, small pots and lamps for a doll-sized household on the Foxe Basin coast. Among those playthings Mathiassen recorded a bullroarer barely longer than a finger — 7.8 centimetres of flat, slightly curved wood, both edges cut with deep notches, a hole at the narrow end holding seventeen centimetres of sinew thread that ends in a noose. Nearby in the same set of toys lay a spinning buzz made from a single whitefish vertebra, threaded with sinew and pulled to make it whirl.","pull_quote":"A bull-roarer from Iglulik is of wood, 7.8 cm long, 1.8 cm wide, flat, slightly curved, with deep notches in the edges and, at the narrow end, a hole in which is fastened a piece of sinew-thread, 17 cm long, ending in a noose.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Mathiassen 1928, Material Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos, chapter 10 (playthings).","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":"Therkel Mathiassen, Material Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1928), chapter 10, playthings section","url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Material_Culture_of_the_Iglulik_Eskimos/Chapter_10","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250810032918/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Material_Culture_of_the_Iglulik_Eskimos/Chapter_10"}],"source_citations":"Therkel Mathiassen, Material Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1928), chapter 10, playthings section","source_display":"Therkel Mathiassen, Material Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1928), chapter 10, playthings section","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small wooden blade, 7.8 by 1.8 cm, flat and slightly curved, with deep notches cut in the edges and a 17 cm sinew thread through a hole at the narrow end, ending in a noose.","function_display":"A child's plaything, recorded among Iglulik toys.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"iglulik inuit","display_name":"Palm-sized Iglulik plaything","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MATHIASSEN1928-001_mathiassen1928-001-west-hudson-bay-uem26.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MATHIASSEN1928-001_mathiassen1928-001-west-hudson-bay-uem26_thumb.jpg","credit":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM26188; photo Camilla and Mårten Teigen","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and rotated 180 degrees","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213516412","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A saw-toothed wooden blade from the west coast of Hudson Bay."},"slug":"mathiassen1928-001-iglulik-inuit"}