{"id":"PEABODY2026-001","label":"Lake Naddern Peabody bullroarer","people_or_site":"Lake Naddern","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Namendarra Lake, Shire of Laverton, Western Australia (Peabody: 'Lake Naddern')","macroregion":"Australia / Western Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Carved wooden elliptical bullroarer, perforated, with grooved designs on one side; 59.1 x 8.7 x 0.7 cm.","function_summary":"Sounded at men's initiation; forbidden to the sight of women and the uninitiated.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"PEABODY_25_46_70_D2449","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77304","page_or_plate":"object 25-46-70/D2449","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Official Landgate Namendarra Lake coordinate (GEONOMA feature 100025515), used as the probable modern match for Peabody's 'Lake Naddern'; the equivalence is not accession-confirmed.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Swung hard on its cord, a blade this long — close to sixty centimetres — throws a deep, carrying roar that across the Western Desert was heard as the voice of an ancestral being. When it wailed from beyond the camp, an initiate understood the spirit had come to swallow him and, after weeks in seclusion, to spit him out a grown man; women and the uninitiated who saw it could be killed. Grooved on one face and pierced for its cord, this specimen from the goldfields desert near Laverton kept no record of its own ceremony — only the tradition it was made for.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 25-46-70/D2449 ('Lake Naddern'; formerly Mrs. Walter Badenach, 1924)","url":"https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77304"}],"source_citations":"Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 25-46-70/D2449 ('Lake Naddern'; formerly Mrs. Walter Badenach, 1924)","source_display":"Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 25-46-70/D2449 ('Lake Naddern'; formerly Mrs. Walter Badenach, 1924)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Carved wooden elliptical bullroarer, perforated, with grooved designs on one side; 59.1 x 8.7 x 0.7 cm.","function_display":"Sounded at men's initiation; forbidden to the sight of women and the uninitiated.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lake naddern","display_name":"Lake Naddern Peabody bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/montague1921_fig19_kookynie.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/thumbs/montague1921_fig19_kookynie_thumb.jpg","alt":"Kookynie bullroarer grooved with nested squares.","credit":"Leopold A. D. Montague, Weapons and Implements of Savage Races (1921), fig. 19 no. 2","license":"Public domain (published 1921)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/weaponsimplement00montrich","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Kookynie bullroarer grooved with nested squares.","pool_id":"auto-expansion_2026_07--montague1921_fig19_kookynie"},"slug":"peabody2026-001-lake-naddern"}