{"id":"MUS2026-152","label":"Victoria River black wooden bullroarer","people_or_site":"Victoria River (Aboriginal Australian)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Victoria River, Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia / Top End","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"28.2 x 4.5 x 1 cm black-stained wooden slat, flat on one face and rounded on the other, with a hole at one end for cord attachment.","function_summary":"Function not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"britishmuseum_oc1902_0417_34","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1902-0417-34","page_or_plate":"Oc1902,0417.34","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Victoria River feature anchor from the Northern Territory Place Names Register. The British Museum names the river only, not an object findspot or people.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Blackened like charcoal and carved as an airfoil — flat on one face, rounded on the other — this blade was shaped to bite the air, turning a plain pierced board into a carrying roar. It came out of the Victoria River country at the raw edge of the cattle frontier: its donor, the pastoralist Joseph Bradshaw, held a run of four thousand eight hundred square miles on the river, and shipped his Aboriginal collection to the British Museum in 1902. Which of the river peoples made the blade was not set down.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"British Museum, Oc1902,0417.34 (Victoria River, Northern Territory; donor Joseph Bradshaw, 1902)","url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1902-0417-34"}],"source_citations":"British Museum, Oc1902,0417.34 (Victoria River, Northern Territory; donor Joseph Bradshaw, 1902)","source_display":"British Museum, Oc1902,0417.34 (Victoria River, Northern Territory; donor Joseph Bradshaw, 1902)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"28.2 x 4.5 x 1 cm black-stained wooden slat, flat on one face and rounded on the other, with a hole at one end for cord attachment.","function_display":"Function not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"victoria river","display_name":"Victoria River black wooden bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Oc1902-0417-34.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Oc1902-0417-34_thumb.jpg","alt":"Museum record card with a line drawing of a black-stained Victoria River bullroarer, pierced near one end, alongside handwritten notes and a cross-section.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (Oc1902,0417.34)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1902-0417-34","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Black-stained Victoria River bullroarer with a pierced end."},"slug":"mus2026-152-victoria-river-aboriginal-australian"}