{"id":"MUS2026-162","label":"Gugu Yalanji-area jinna-juronggor wind charm","people_or_site":"Gugu Yalanji area","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Butcher's Hill / Boggy Creek Reserve southwest of Cooktown","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"jinna-juronggor","source_term":"form of roarer / charm or whirler","source_language":"English / local name","object_description":"Painted oblong wooden plate, 22.7 x 5.4 cm, with 29 cm hand-spun bark-fibre string through a terminal hole and gum cement at the perforation. A companion blade is 29.3 x 8.3 cm with 60.2 cm string.","function_summary":"Hung in a breeze near a baby so it spun in the wind and protected the child; Roth also says this roarer form made things near or beneath it taboo.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"australian_museum_e13712_jinna_juronggor","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/16846/69_complete.pdf","page_or_plate":"Khan 1993:164; Roth 1908:75 and plate XX figs. 1, 3","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Butchers Hill homestead anchor matching the two exact cataloged objects; Roth also records Cooktown and Bloomfield River distribution.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Butcher's Hill southwest of Cooktown, a painted wooden jinna-juronggor hung beside a baby. The breeze set its corded blade spinning, and the moving charm protected the child. Walter Roth found the same roarer form around Cooktown and the Bloomfield River, where anything near or beneath its white-striped red blade became taboo. Two Gugu Yalanji-area examples survive in the Australian Museum, still preserving their bark-fibre strings.","pull_quote":"A painted wooden charm or whirler was hung in a breeze near a baby, so that it would spin around in the wind and protect the child.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Khan 1993:164, summarizing Roth Bulletin 11","term_gloss":"jinna-juronggor: local name for the painted protective whirler.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Kate Khan, Catalogue of the Roth Collection, vol. 1 (1993), p. 164, exact objects E.13712-E.13713; Walter Roth, Bulletin 11 (1908), p. 75","url":"https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/16846/69_complete.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240623170820/https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/16846/69_complete.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Kate Khan, Catalogue of the Roth Collection, vol. 1 (1993), p. 164, exact objects E.13712-E.13713; Walter Roth, Bulletin 11 (1908), p. 75","source_display":"Kate Khan, Catalogue of the Roth Collection, vol. 1 (1993), p. 164, exact objects E.13712-E.13713; Walter Roth, Bulletin 11 (1908), p. 75","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Painted oblong wooden plate, 22.7 x 5.4 cm, with 29 cm hand-spun bark-fibre string through a terminal hole and gum cement at the perforation. A companion blade is 29.3 x 8.3 cm with 60.2 cm string.","function_display":"Hung in a breeze near a baby so it spun in the wind and protected the child; Roth also says this roarer form made things near or beneath it taboo.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"gugu yalanji","display_name":"Gugu Yalanji-area jinna-juronggor wind charm","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-162_roth1908_pl20_e13712.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-162_roth1908_pl20_e13712_thumb.jpg","alt":"Roth's plate image of the Butcher's Hill jinna-juronggor, with white herringbone bands and a notch at the free end.","credit":"W. E. Roth, North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin 11 (1908), Plate XX; photo H. Barnes, Junr., Australian Museum (E.13712)","license":"Public domain (published 1908)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/biostor-52896","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Butcher's Hill jinna-juronggor: white herringbone, a nick at the free end, bark-fibre string.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-162_roth1908_pl20_e13713.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-162_roth1908_pl20_e13713_thumb.jpg","alt":"Roth’s monochrome plate of a broad north Queensland wind-charm blade with blunt ends, a dark central field, pale end panels and cord wound across its face.","credit":"W. E. Roth, North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin 11 (1908), Plate XX; photo H. Barnes, Junr., Australian Museum (E.13713)","license":"Public domain (published 1908)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/biostor-52896","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Red-edged companion blade, with white-painted ends."}]},"slug":"mus2026-162-gugu-yalanji-area"}