{"id":"NA-S1952-009","label":"Mono curing bullroarer","people_or_site":"Mono","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"California / Great Basin","macroregion":"North America","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"A shaman's instrument. At North Fork it was swung publicly and by men only, to assemble people for ceremony, raise a storm, heal, and cause sickness; among the Kings River Western Mono shamans used it to raise storms and cause sickness, and it was also a plaything. At Auberry it was only a wooden toy.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"seder1952oldworld","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://www.penn.museum/sites/bulletin/3526/","page_or_plate":"51-54","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Representative Mono/Sierra-Great Basin anchor; Seder gives no exact site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At North Fork, on the San Joaquin, the Mono bullroarer belonged to the doctors. A shaman whirled it in the open, and only men might handle it. It called people together for ceremony, raised storms, and cut both ways: it could heal a sick person, and it could make a well one ill. South on the Kings River the Western Mono knew its darker side — Woponuch shamans swung it in public to bring a storm or send sickness, Entimbich doctors in private to sicken — while in Sycamore Valley it was a plaything of wood, horn or bone, and at Auberry, on the San Joaquin below North Fork, a wooden toy and nothing more.","pull_quote":"In North America, the bull-roarer has curative properties among the shamans of the Diegueño, Mono, Navaho, Tonto Apache, Yokuts, Pomo, and Papago; formerly this was also true of the Tanaina.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Theodore A. Seder, 'Old World Overtones in the New World', Museum Bulletin (University of Pennsylvania) XVI(4) (1952), Bull-Roarer section","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Theodore A. Seder, 'Old World Overtones in the New World,' University Museum Bulletin 16(4) (1952), pp. 51-54","url":"https://www.penn.museum/sites/bulletin/3526/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250316040643/https://www.penn.museum/sites/bulletin/3526/"},{"citation":"B. W. Aginsky, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXIV, Central Sierra,' Anthropological Records 8(4) (1943), pp. 393-394, 425, elements 1233-1244"},{"citation":"Harold E. Driver, 'Culture Element Distributions: VI, Southern Sierra Nevada,' Anthropological Records 1(2) (1937), pp. 58-60, 85, elements 1233-1244"}],"source_citations":"Theodore A. Seder, 'Old World Overtones in the New World,' University Museum Bulletin 16(4) (1952), pp. 51-54; B. W. Aginsky, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXIV, Central Sierra,' Anthropological Records 8(4) (1943), pp. 393-394, 425, elements 1233-1244; Harold E. Driver, 'Culture Element Distributions: VI, Southern Sierra Nevada,' Anthropological Records 1(2) (1937), pp. 58-60, 85, elements 1233-1244","source_display":"Theodore A. Seder, 'Old World Overtones in the New World,' University Museum Bulletin 16(4) (1952), pp. 51-54; B. W. Aginsky, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXIV, Central Sierra,' Anthropological Records 8(4) (1943), pp. 393-394, 425, elements 1233-1244; Harold E. Driver, 'Culture Element Distributions: VI, Southern Sierra Nevada,' Anthropological Records…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"A shaman's instrument. At North Fork it was swung publicly and by men only, to assemble people for ceremony, raise a storm, heal, and cause sickness; among the Kings River Western Mono shamans used it to raise storms and cause sickness, and it was also a plaything. At Auberry it was only a wooden toy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mono","display_name":"Mono curing bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LOEB1929-021_hearst_chukchansi_1-4035.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LOEB1929-021_hearst_chukchansi_1-4035_thumb.jpg","alt":"Chukchansi wimias collected by Kroeber at Picayune Rancheria in 1904: a long flat wooden bullroarer with a broad rounded end and cord tied through its narrow tip.","credit":"Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1-4035)","license":"© Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley","source_page":"https://portal.hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/catalog/da7d2cec-016c-42b2-ae94-4f13133e6b0d","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Chukchansi wimias collected by Kroeber at Picayune Rancheria in 1904.","pool_id":"auto-LOEB1929-021_hearst_chukchansi_1-4035"},"slug":"na-s1952-009-mono"}