{"id":"PEABODY2026-002","label":"Drysdale River Kimberley Peabody bullroarer","people_or_site":"Drysdale River, Kimberley","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Western Australia / Kimberley / Drysdale River","macroregion":"Australia / Kimberley","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Carved wooden ovate flat bullroarer, perforated, with grooved concentric rectangles; 73.3 x 7.9 x 1 cm.","function_summary":"Kept from public view: the museum withholds its image. Its use is not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"PEABODY_25_46_70_D2431","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77286","page_or_plate":"object 25-46-70/D2431","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Drysdale River / Drysdale River National Park anchor; public gazetteer/Wikipedia gives the park coordinate, while the Peabody object record names Drysdale River, Kimberley, not an exact findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Almost three-quarters of a metre long and only a centimetre thick, this blade from the Drysdale River in the north Kimberley is carved with rectangles nested one inside the next, each line cut as a groove into the wood.","pull_quote":"Bullroarer, carved wood, ovate, flat, perforated, grooved concentric rectangles","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Peabody Museum, object 25-46-70/D2431, inventory description","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 25-46-70/D2431 (Drysdale River, Kimberley; formerly Mrs. Walter Badenach, 1924)","url":"https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/77286"}],"source_citations":"Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 25-46-70/D2431 (Drysdale River, Kimberley; formerly Mrs. Walter Badenach, 1924)","source_display":"Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 25-46-70/D2431 (Drysdale River, Kimberley; formerly Mrs. Walter Badenach, 1924)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Carved wooden ovate flat bullroarer, perforated, with grooved concentric rectangles; 73.3 x 7.9 x 1 cm.","function_display":"Kept from public view: the museum withholds its image. Its use is not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"drysdale river","display_name":"Drysdale River Kimberley Peabody bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/explatta_au.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/explatta_au_thumb.jpg","credit":"Museum of Ethnography (SMVK), Stockholm","license":"CC BY","source_page":"","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A long wooden bullroarer with a worn, dark surface."},"slug":"peabody2026-002-drysdale-river-kimberley"}