{"id":"NAAIN-016","label":"Clavering Island Site C blade","people_or_site":"Tunumiit, Clavering Island (Northeast Greenland)","country_current":"Greenland","historic_region":"Northeast Greenland / Tunu","macroregion":"North America / Arctic","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wood archaeological bullroarer from Stone house Site C","function_summary":"Archaeological object probably AD 1600-1800 from Clavering Island Site C","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"NMAI_191756","source_type":"smithsonian_open_access_api","source_url":"https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_191756","page_or_plate":"NMAI object record 17/9504","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Clavering Island archaeological source place; not museum location","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A carved and drilled wooden bullroarer, dug from a stone house at Site C on Clavering Island in Northeast Greenland and dated by the museum to probably AD 1600–1800. It was excavated in 1930 by the archaeologist Junius Bird, who dug abandoned Eskimo ruins on Clavering and Shannon Islands during the Ford-Bartlett East Greenland Expedition — Captain Robert Bartlett's voyage on the schooner Effie M. Morrissey, sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian and its trustee James B. Ford. The Smithsonian attributes it to the ancestral Tunumiit of the Tunu (East Greenland) coast. Among Greenlandic Inuit the bullroarer is recorded chiefly as a child's spinning noise-toy rather than a ritual instrument, a lozenge of wood or bone pierced at one end, spun on a cord to whir.","pull_quote":"Bullroarer. Wood. Stone house; Site C, Clavering Island; Northeast Greenland National Park; Tunu (East Greenland); Greenland. Date made: probably AD 1600–1800.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"National Museum of the American Indian, object record 17/9504 (NMAI_191756)","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,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 1600–1800 AD","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"museum_field","date_confidence":"high","date_citation":"NMAI_191756, NMAI object record 17/9504","sources":[{"citation":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 17/9504 (stone house, Site C, Clavering Island, Northeast Greenland)","url":"https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_191756","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250618160047/https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_191756"}],"source_citations":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 17/9504 (stone house, Site C, Clavering Island, Northeast Greenland)","source_display":"Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 17/9504 (stone house, Site C, Clavering Island, Northeast Greenland)","date_citation_display":"NMAI object record 17/9504","object_display":"Wood archaeological bullroarer from Stone house Site C","function_display":"Archaeological object probably AD 1600-1800 from Clavering Island Site C","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tunumiit","display_name":"Clavering Island Site C blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39586.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39586_thumb.jpg","alt":"Arctic bone bullroarer with fine sawtooth edges and a long hide cord.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1907.72.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39586","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Arctic bone bullroarer with fine sawtooth edges and a long hide cord."},"slug":"naain-016-tunumiit-clavering-island-northeast-greenland"}