{"id":"MUS2026-330","label":"Western Australian ancestor-voice zigzag","people_or_site":"People unrecorded","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Western Australia","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"French","object_description":"Wooden bullroarer, 401 x 60 x 10 mm, engraved with a wide zigzag, hatched angles and concentric triangles.","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_71-1928-27-31","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1928.27.31","page_or_plate":"71.1928.27.31","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Western Australia anchor; the exact collecting place is unrecorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A broad zigzag runs the length of this forty-centimetre Western Australian blade, its angles filled with hatching and nested triangles. Whirled in initiation, its roar was the voice of the presiding ancestor and a warning to women not to approach. The engraving is patient work on an object whose whole effect, at the moment that mattered, was sound.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 71.1928.27.31","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 71.1928.27.31; object ID(s) 7287; 40,1 x 6 x 1 cm, 131 g","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1928.27.31","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013034619/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1928.27.31"}],"source_citations":"musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 71.1928.27.31; object ID(s) 7287; 40,1 x 6 x 1 cm, 131 g","source_display":"musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 71.1928.27.31; object ID(s) 7287; 40,1 x 6 x 1 cm, 131 g","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden bullroarer, 401 x 60 x 10 mm, engraved with a wide zigzag, hatched angles and concentric triangles.","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":"Western Australian ancestor-voice zigzag","image":{"full":"assets/objects/mqb/mqb_71-1928-27-31.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/mqb/thumbs/mqb_71-1928-27-31_thumb.jpg","credit":"© musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (71.1928.27.31)","license":"© musée du quai Branly — rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1928.27.31","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The zigzag blade itself, herringbone bands incised end to end (MQB 71.1928.27.31).","last_modified":"2026-09-01"},"slug":"mus2026-330-people-unrecorded"}