{"id":"MUS2026-329","label":"Five serpent tracks on an ochred miniature","people_or_site":"People unrecorded","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Central Australia","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"French","object_description":"Red-ochred wooden bullroarer, 165 x 21 x 3 mm, engraved on both faces with five serpent tracks and parallel rows of dots.","function_summary":"Sounded in initiation as the presiding ancestor's voice; its roar warned women not to approach.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mqb_71-1935-53-12","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1935.53.12","page_or_plate":"71.1935.53.12","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Very broad Australian anchor; the exact community and place are unrecorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Five serpent tracks cross both faces of a blade only 16.5 centimetres long, with rows of dots pressed between their lobes. Whirled in initiation, its roar was the presiding ancestor's voice and a warning to women not to approach. In Central Australia, Spencer and Gillen found that such markings were read as country: shown one churinga, its owner walked them through it mark by mark - a man, his tracks as he wandered about the country, the banks of a creek, the crossing tracks of two men, the spot where he was killed.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 71.1935.53.12","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","snake","initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 71.1935.53.12; object ID(s) 331402; 16,5 x 2,1 x 0,3 cm, 10 g","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1935.53.12","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013034627/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1935.53.12"}],"source_citations":"musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 71.1935.53.12; object ID(s) 331402; 16,5 x 2,1 x 0,3 cm, 10 g","source_display":"musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 71.1935.53.12; object ID(s) 331402; 16,5 x 2,1 x 0,3 cm, 10 g","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Red-ochred wooden bullroarer, 165 x 21 x 3 mm, engraved on both faces with five serpent tracks and parallel rows of dots.","function_display":"Sounded in initiation as the presiding ancestor's voice; its roar warned women not to approach.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"","display_name":"Five serpent tracks on an ochred miniature","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-329_mus2026-329-five-serpent-tracks.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-329_mus2026-329-five-serpent-tracks_thumb.jpg","alt":"A red-ochred Central Australian bullroarer with five sinuous serpent tracks and a hole near one end.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1935.53.12","license":"Rights reserved (© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac). Authorization required for diffusion: catalogue StatusFlags says “Ne pas diffuser l’image” and omits public image fields; accessible via official public proxy. Proposal for owner review only; publication is not authorized. Cropped and rotated 180°.","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/331402","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Red-ochred bullroarer with five serpent tracks, Quai Branly 71.1935.53.12."},"slug":"mus2026-329-people-unrecorded"}