{"id":"MUS2026-163","label":"Fitzroy River painted wood bullroarer","people_or_site":"Fitzroy River (people unrecorded)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Kimberley / Fitzroy River","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"vinare / bullroarer","source_language":"Swedish / English","object_description":"Small carved bullroarer of red-coloured wood, simply ornamented and once painted, 14.8 x 2.8 x 0.7 cm; cord now missing.","function_summary":"Secret and sacred; no ceremony or particular use is recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smvk_1912_01_1024_fitzroy","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1039296","page_or_plate":"SMVK 1912.01.1024; general catalog p. 246","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Fitzroy Crossing regional anchor for river-level Kimberley provenance; not a collection or performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A small red bullroarer left the Fitzroy River in 1910 with Eric Mjöberg's Swedish expedition — fourteen centimetres of carved, once-painted wood, its cord now lost. The Stockholm museum that keeps it now treats it as secret and sacred and withholds its photograph; the river is the only thing about it not held close.","pull_quote":"Vinare, \"Bullroarer\" försedd med enkel ornering. Varit målad. Fitzroy River.","pull_quote_translation":"Bullroarer furnished with simple ornament. Formerly painted. Fitzroy River.","pull_quote_cite":"SMVK general catalog 1912.01, p. 246","term_gloss":"vinare: Swedish catalog term for a bullroarer; not an Indigenous name","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Etnografiska museet (SMVK), Stockholm, 1912.01.1024, and 1912 general catalogue, p. 246; collected 1910 by the ethnographer Yngve Laurell on Eric Mjöberg's 1910-1911 Swedish scientific expedition to Australia; acquired by the museum 1912","url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1039296","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013023247/https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1039296"}],"source_citations":"Etnografiska museet (SMVK), Stockholm, 1912.01.1024, and 1912 general catalogue, p. 246; collected 1910 by the ethnographer Yngve Laurell on Eric Mjöberg's 1910-1911 Swedish scientific expedition to Australia; acquired by the museum 1912","source_display":"Etnografiska museet (SMVK), Stockholm, 1912.01.1024, and 1912 general catalogue, p. 246; collected 1910 by the ethnographer Yngve Laurell on Eric Mjöberg's 1910-1911 Swedish scientific expedition to Australia; acquired by the museum 1912","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small carved bullroarer of red-coloured wood, simply ornamented and once painted, 14.8 x 2.8 x 0.7 cm; cord now missing.","function_display":"Secret and sacred; no ceremony or particular use is recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"fitzroy river","display_name":"Fitzroy River painted wood bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/smg_160.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/smg_160_thumb.jpg","alt":"Australian wooden bullroarer densely incised with fine herringbone lines, with a visible hole near each rounded end.","credit":"Science Museum Group (acc. A140596)","license":"","source_page":"https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co104687","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Australian bullroarer carved with fine herringbone patterning","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--smg_160","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"mus2026-163-fitzroy-river-people-unrecorded"}