{"id":"NAMER-013","label":"Haida bull-roarer, Haida Gwaii (Dawson, 1878)","people_or_site":"Haida, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands)","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia","macroregion":"North America / Northwest Coast","local_name":"","source_term":"Bull-roarer","source_language":"","object_description":"A flat wooden bull-roarer, about 38 by 7 cm, of a length-to-width proportion typical of a whirled blade. Its medium is wood, bark, fibre, paint and metal, and it survives in three parts (ME892.21.1-3), consistent with a blade with cord and handle. It dates to ca. 1800-1850 and came into the collection with George Mercer Dawson's 1878 Haida Gwaii expedition.","function_summary":"Function not recorded. The museum places it among ceremonial / religious objects but documents no specific use.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mccord-ME892-21-haida-bullroarer","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/97115/no-title","page_or_plate":"Object Number ME892.21.1-3","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative anchor at Skidegate, the principal southern Haida village. The museum records only \"Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands)\" for origin; Dawson's 1878 collecting centred on the southern villages, and he attended a potlatch at Skidegate on 24 July 1878 and photographed Skidegate and Skedans, so Skidegate stands for the archipelago.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Somewhere in Haida Gwaii, in the first half of the nineteenth century, someone made a bullroarer: a painted wooden blade a little over a foot long, in three parts — blade, cord and handle — that came south in the geologist George Mercer Dawson's Haida collection and now sits, unphotographed, in a Montreal storeroom. Its village, its name and its purpose are lost. What a Haida bullroarer did depended on where you asked. At Skedans it was a ceremonial voice, sounded out of sight behind the painted screen of the potlatch house; at Masset, at the archipelago's other end, it was a child's toy.","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":"McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, object ME892.21.1-3: Bull-roarer, Haida, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, ca. 1800-1850, gift of George Mercer Dawson; Philip Drucker, Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast, University of California Anthropological Records 9:3 (Berkeley, 1950), pp. 199, 268","url":"https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/97115/no-title"}],"source_citations":"McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, object ME892.21.1-3: Bull-roarer, Haida, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, ca. 1800-1850, gift of George Mercer Dawson; Philip Drucker, Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast, University of California Anthropological Records 9:3 (Berkeley, 1950), pp. 199, 268","source_display":"McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, object ME892.21.1-3: Bull-roarer, Haida, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, ca. 1800-1850, gift of George Mercer Dawson; Philip Drucker, Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast, University of California Anthropological Records 9:3 (Berkeley, 1950), pp. 199, 268","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A flat wooden bull-roarer, about 38 by 7 cm, of a length-to-width proportion typical of a whirled blade. Its medium is wood, bark, fibre, paint and metal, and it survives in three parts (ME892.21.1-3), consistent with a blade with cord and handle. It dates to ca. 1800-1850 and came into the collection with George Mercer Dawson's 1878 Haida Gwaii expedition.","function_display":"Function not recorded. The museum places it among ceremonial / religious objects but documents no specific use.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"haida","display_name":"Haida bull-roarer, Haida Gwaii (Dawson, 1878)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/europeana_374.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/europeana_374_thumb.jpg","alt":"Berlin IV A 1488, the whirring stick Boas published as Koskimo: a broad tapering wooden blade and separate slim handle connected by a short cord at their ends.","credit":"Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (acc. IV A 1488)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 3.0","source_page":"http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=1313877","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Complete Hesquiaht bullroarer rig.","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--europeana_374"},"slug":"namer-013-haida-haida-gwaii-queen-charlotte-islands"}