{"id":"MUS2026-339","label":"Darkwood leaf blade with cord","people_or_site":"People unrecorded","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Probable Northern Territory","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"Danish","object_description":"Leaf-shaped darkwood blade, 255 x 60 mm, with terminal fibre cord and shallow line-and-arc incision.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"natmus_i_7291","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/242516","page_or_plate":"I.7291","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Northern Territory anchor because the museum itself marks the provenance as probable.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A dark leaf of wood, twenty-five and a half centimetres long, cut with shallow arcs and straight lines, and still carrying its fibre cord at the tip - the working part, and the part that almost never survives. Writing of the Northern Territory, Baldwin Spencer set down the belief he found running through the mainland: the women and children kept away from an initiation were taught that the drone of such an instrument was the voice of a great spirit come to carry the youth away.","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":"National Museum of Denmark I.7291; wood and fibre cord; 25.5 × 6 cm","url":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/242516","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013035533/https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/242516"}],"source_citations":"National Museum of Denmark I.7291; wood and fibre cord; 25.5 × 6 cm","source_display":"National Museum of Denmark I.7291; wood and fibre cord; 25.5 × 6 cm","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Leaf-shaped darkwood blade, 255 x 60 mm, with terminal fibre cord and shallow line-and-arc incision.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"","display_name":"Darkwood leaf blade with cord","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/MUS2026-339_I7291_natmus.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest2/thumbs/MUS2026-339_I7291_natmus_thumb.jpg","credit":"Nationalmuseet, Denmark (I.7291)","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/242516 (asset/388622)","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"I.7291 on its cord, faint arcs incised down the blade.","last_modified":"2026-09-01"},"slug":"mus2026-339-people-unrecorded"}