{"id":"NAAIN-013","label":"Naskapi birch blade in crayon","people_or_site":"Davis Inlet band Naskapi","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Labrador / Davis Inlet","macroregion":"North America / Subarctic","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden bullroarer, Field Museum 176799.","function_summary":"Grouped with games and toys; no further use recorded.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"VANSTONE_1985_NASKAPI_176799","source_type":"publication_pdf","source_url":"https://archive.org/download/materialcultureo00vans/materialcultureo00vans.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 35 (the toys/\"minor magical playing devices\" passage); fig. 92G (specimen 176799); Appendix 1 \"Naskapi Material Culture Elements\", printed p. 47, under Games and Toys; catalogue of specimens, printed pp. 53-54","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"representative on-land anchor at Davis Inlet band Naskapi (regional coordinate fell just offshore of the rendered coastline); not an exact findspot","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Notched all round and scribbled over in purple and red crayon, this birchwood oval was a Naskapi child's bull-roarer from Davis Inlet on the Labrador coast. William Duncan Strong collected it, one of four, on the Rawson-MacMillan Subarctic Expedition of 1927-28; it is now in the Field Museum. By then such toys were whirled and spun for the amusement of children and adults, but they had once belonged to what Frank Speck called \"minor magical playing devices\": the same set as the caribou-astragalus buzzer, originally a magical device, spun to make the wind rise.","pull_quote":"The collection contains four bull-roarers, flat oval pieces of birchwood notched on all sides, to the ends of which are attached lengths of caribou skin, sinew, or twine. Two specimens have been crudely decorated with purple and red crayon. Strong (1928c, vol. 1) noted that the instrument was a child's toy and had no other function. It was sometimes tied to a stick.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"VanStone 1985, Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi (Fieldiana Anthropology n.s. 7), p. 35","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"James W. VanStone, Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi, Fieldiana Anthropology n.s. 7 (1985), pp. 35, 47, 53–54, fig. 92G, specimen 176799","url":"https://archive.org/download/materialcultureo00vans/materialcultureo00vans.pdf"}],"source_citations":"James W. VanStone, Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi, Fieldiana Anthropology n.s. 7 (1985), pp. 35, 47, 53–54, fig. 92G, specimen 176799","source_display":"James W. VanStone, Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi, Fieldiana Anthropology n.s. 7 (1985), pp. 35, 47, 53–54, fig. 92G, specimen 176799","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden bullroarer, Field Museum 176799.","function_display":"Grouped with games and toys; no further use recorded.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"davis inlet","display_name":"Naskapi birch blade in crayon","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NAAIN-013_vanstone1985_fig92G.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAAIN-013_vanstone1985_fig92G_thumb.jpg","credit":"J. W. VanStone, Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi (Fieldiana: Anthropology, Field Museum, 1985), fig. 92G","license":"© Field Museum of Natural History — openly hosted scan; rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/materialcultureo00vans","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Davis Inlet Naskapi birchwood bullroarer, notched on all sides and decorated with crayon.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/NAAIN-013_cmh_iii_b_349.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAAIN-013_cmh_iii_b_349_thumb.jpg","alt":"Joe Rich’s Davis Inlet rig from 1961: a pale scalloped blade linked by cord to a long straight wooden handle.","credit":"Canadian Museum of History, III-B-349 a-b (maker Joe Rich, 1961)","license":"© Canadian Museum of History — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/27512/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A later Davis Inlet roarer: Joe Rich's blade-and-handle rig, 1961."},{"full":"assets/objects/NAAIN-013_cmh_iii_b_611.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAAIN-013_cmh_iii_b_611_thumb.jpg","alt":"Joe Rich’s 1961 Davis Inlet birch roarer with red-painted margins, a serrated edge and cord attached to a separate pale handle stick.","credit":"Canadian Museum of History, III-B-611 (maker Joe Rich, 1961)","license":"© Canadian Museum of History — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/27777/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Another of Joe Rich's 1961 Davis Inlet roarers, birch with red-painted margins."}]},"slug":"naain-013-davis-inlet-band-naskapi"}