{"id":"NAEXP-001","label":"Oglala Dakota (Pine Ridge) bull-roarer toy","people_or_site":"Oglala Dakota / Pine Ridge","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota","macroregion":"North America / Plains","local_name":"tateka yuhmunpi","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Thin flat rectangular wood, 1¼ x 5¾ in., on a 36-in. thong tied to a 31-in. stick (Free Museum of Science and Art, Univ. Pennsylvania, no. 22127).","function_summary":"Boy's plaything; Culin frames the bull-roarer toy as 'presumably borrowed from the implement used in religious rites'.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"culin1907_games_north_american_indians","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbu24smit","page_or_plate":"p. 750; fig. 1008","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Pine Ridge Reservation centroid, South Dakota; representative anchor, not an exact collection site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Pine Ridge the collector Louis L. Meeker found a thin flat rectangular slat of wood tied by a thirty-six-inch thong to the end of a long stick, and recorded it as a boy's plaything that the Oglala called tateka yuhmunpi — the kind of bull-roarer a child whirls overhead to make a whizzing roar. Meeker gave it to the Free Museum of Science and Art at the University of Pennsylvania in 1900, and Stewart Culin figured it as number 22127 in his 1907 survey of Native games. Culin opened his bull-roarer section by calling the toy form \"presumably borrowed from the implement used in religious rites\" of the Hopi, Zuñi, Navaho, Apache, and other tribes, but for this Oglala specimen he recorded only the plaything and its name.","pull_quote":"This is described by the collector, Mr Louis L. Meeker, as a boy's plaything, under the name of tateka yuhmunpi.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Culin 1907, Games of the North American Indians (BAE 24th Annual Report):750","term_gloss":"The name Louis L. Meeker recorded among the Oglala for the bull-roarer.","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":"Stewart Culin, 'Games of the North American Indians', BAE 24th Annual Report (1907), p. 750, fig. 1008, citing Louis L. Meeker, 'Ogalala Games', Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art 3 (1901): 34","url":"https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbu24smit"}],"source_citations":"Stewart Culin, 'Games of the North American Indians', BAE 24th Annual Report (1907), p. 750, fig. 1008, citing Louis L. Meeker, 'Ogalala Games', Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art 3 (1901): 34","source_display":"Stewart Culin, 'Games of the North American Indians', BAE 24th Annual Report (1907), p. 750, fig. 1008, citing Louis L. Meeker, 'Ogalala Games', Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art 3 (1901): 34","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thin flat rectangular wood, 1¼ x 5¾ in., on a 36-in. thong tied to a 31-in. stick (Free Museum of Science and Art, Univ. Pennsylvania, no. 22127).","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"oglala dakota","display_name":"Oglala Dakota (Pine Ridge) bull-roarer toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared_culin1907_fig1008.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared_culin1907_fig1008_thumb.jpg","alt":"Culin’s 1907 engraving of an Oglala tateka yuhmunpi from Pine Ridge: a long narrow stick, looping cord and small flat blade.","credit":"Stewart Culin, Games of the North American Indians (24th ARBAE, 1907), fig. 1008","license":"Public domain (published 1907)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/gamesofnorthamer00culirich","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Oglala tateka yuhmunpi from Pine Ridge, figured by Culin in 1907.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/NAEXP-001_penn22127_front.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/NAEXP-001_penn22127_front_thumb.jpg","alt":"An Oglala bull-roarer's long, rough wooden handle stick, shown horizontally.","credit":"Object 22127. Courtesy of the Penn Museum.","license":"Penn Museum — educational/non-commercial use","source_page":"https://collections.penn.museum/collections/object/160668","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"This Pine Ridge bull-roarer's long handle stick, now in the Penn Museum."}]},"slug":"naexp-001-oglala-dakota-pine-ridge"}