{"id":"MUS2026-237","label":"Yirrkala craft-shop bullroarer","people_or_site":"Methodist Mission Aboriginal Craft shop, Yirrkala, north-east Arnhem Land (maker and community not named on the record)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Yirrkala, north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (probable point of production; the museum's printed locality is Woomera, South Australia)","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"Wooden bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A wooden bullroarer decorated on both sides with an all-over pattern in white, picked out with red and black.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"maa_1974_243_woomera_yirrkala_bullroarer","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/492593/","page_or_plate":"MAA 1974.243 (object 492593)","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate point at Yirrkala township, taken as the probable place of production and sale rather than the \"Woomera, South Australia\" printed on the object record. The 1974.241-248 group's catalogue card carries a printed Methodist Mission Aboriginal Craft label reading \"From Methodist Mission Yirrkala. Arnhem Land,\" while the same card records Woomera, roughly 2,000 km from Yirrkala, as where R. Brooks made the 1964/65 purchase through Native Patrol Officers.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A wooden board, painted on both faces with an all-over white pattern picked out in red and black, that Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology catalogues simply as a bullroarer. The purchase group it arrived with in 1973-74 carries a printed craft-shop label, 'From Methodist Mission Yirrkala, Arnhem Land' — the mission craft shop on the far side of the continent from Woomera, South Australia, where the object's own catalogue card places the 1964-65 sale. The board most likely began its life at that Arnhem Land mission before travelling west to change hands.","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":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1974.243 (collected by R. Brooks)","url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/492593/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013133902/https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/492593/"}],"source_citations":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1974.243 (collected by R. Brooks)","source_display":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1974.243 (collected by R. Brooks)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden bullroarer decorated on both sides with an all-over pattern in white, picked out with red and black.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"methodist mission","display_name":"Yirrkala craft-shop bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-164_agnsw_ia55_1962.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-164_agnsw_ia55_1962_thumb.jpg","alt":"Yolngu comparison: a long pale Gupapuyngu burala with a reddish crosshatched panel and loose cord, made at nearby Milingimbi.","credit":"© Djäwa Estate, licensed by Aboriginal Artist Agency Ltd, Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, IA55.1962","license":"© Djäwa Estate — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/IA55.1962/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Yolngu comparison: a Gupapuyngu burala made at nearby Milingimbi."},"slug":"mus2026-237-methodist-mission-aboriginal-craft-shop-yirrkala-north-east-arnhem-land-maker"}