{"id":"MUS2026-194","label":"Pelly Bay Netsilingmiut bullroarer (CMH IV-C-3299)","people_or_site":"Netsilingmiut, Pelly Bay / Kugaaruk, Nunavut","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Kitikmeot / Pelly Bay (Kugaaruk)","macroregion":"North America / Arctic","local_name":"imiklutAQ","source_term":"imiklutAQ (Rasmussen's Netsilik orthography)","source_language":"English","object_description":"Serrated wooden bullroarer, 24.0 x 5.1 x 1.5 cm, a mammal-sinew cord through its terminal hole; collected March 1960 or earlier.","function_summary":"A child's game.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"cmh_iv_c_3299_pelly_bay","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/177309","page_or_plate":"CMH artifact 177309; Rasmussen 1931 games list","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay) community anchor — the museum's stated origin, not an exact findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When the ethnographer Asen Balikci began his years at Pelly Bay — fieldwork that became the famous Netsilik film series — one of the things he carried out was this: a hand's-span blade of wood, saw-toothed along both edges, on a cord of mammal sinew. Rasmussen had already written its name into the record a generation earlier: imiklutAQ, listed among the games, a piece of wood cut to shape and whirled round for its humming noise — the sound of children playing on the sea ice of one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"imiklutAQ — Rasmussen's Netsilik term covering both the whirled bull-roarer and the two-cord buzz.","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":"Canadian Museum of History IV-C-3299: bullroarer, Netsilingmiut, Pelly Bay/Kugaaruk, wood and mammal sinew, 24.0 x 5.1 x 1.5 cm, collected by Asen Balikci, March 1960 or earlier; Knud Rasmussen, The Netsilik Eskimos (Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition VIII, 1931), games list, p. 357","url":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/177309","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20180106072231/https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/177309"}],"source_citations":"Canadian Museum of History IV-C-3299: bullroarer, Netsilingmiut, Pelly Bay/Kugaaruk, wood and mammal sinew, 24.0 x 5.1 x 1.5 cm, collected by Asen Balikci, March 1960 or earlier; Knud Rasmussen, The Netsilik Eskimos (Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition VIII, 1931), games list, p. 357","source_display":"Canadian Museum of History IV-C-3299: bullroarer, Netsilingmiut, Pelly Bay/Kugaaruk, wood and mammal sinew, 24.0 x 5.1 x 1.5 cm, collected by Asen Balikci, March 1960 or earlier; Knud Rasmussen, The Netsilik Eskimos (Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition VIII, 1931), games list, p. 357","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Serrated wooden bullroarer, 24.0 x 5.1 x 1.5 cm, a mammal-sinew cord through its terminal hole; collected March 1960 or earlier.","function_display":"A child's game.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"netsilingmiut","display_name":"Pelly Bay Netsilingmiut bullroarer (CMH IV-C-3299)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-194_cmh_iv_c_3299.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-194_cmh_iv_c_3299_thumb.jpg","credit":"Canadian Museum of History, IV-C-3299 (coll. Asen Balikci)","license":"© Canadian Museum of History — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research (no open licence stated)","source_page":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/177309","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Pelly Bay blade itself — serrated along both edges, its mammal-sinew cord through the terminal hole."},"slug":"mus2026-194-netsilingmiut-pelly-bay-kugaaruk-nunavut"}