{"id":"PERI1982-001","label":"A roarer cut from manzanita","people_or_site":"Cloverdale Pomo","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Dry Creek / Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California","macroregion":"North America","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bullroarer worked from manzanita wood; dimensions, cord and decoration not recorded.","function_summary":"Not recorded; the survey files the manzanita roarer under technological rather than ceremonial uses, beside the war club, fish hook and harpoon toggle.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"peri1982_dry_creek_cloverdale_pomo","source_type":"government_ethnobotanical_report","source_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnobotanical_mitigation,_Warm_Springs_Dam-Lake_Sonoma,_California_-_USACE-p266001coll1-5817.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 122","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Dry Creek/Lake Sonoma community-area anchor for a table covering two communities.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Manzanita is a low, red-limbed chaparral shrub with wood hard enough to blunt a blade, and the Southern Pomo of Cloverdale, in the Russian River hills of Sonoma County, put every part of it to use — berries and leaves for food and medicine, the wood for things that had to last. The plant-use record for Cloverdale lists what the wood was worked into: a straight wooden war club, a double-pointed fish hook, and a bullroarer. The compilers had a ceremonial category and used it on the same plant, for the moth cocoons gathered off it for doctors' rattles; the roarer they filed under technology. Who swung it, and on what occasion, is not said.","pull_quote":"TECH: Wood fashioned into a simple club (straight wooden war club), bull-roarer, double-pointed fish hook","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Peri, Patterson & Goodrich, Ethnobotanical Mitigation, Warm Springs Dam-Lake Sonoma (1982), p. 122.","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":"Peri, Patterson and Goodrich, Ethnobotanical Mitigation, Warm Springs Dam-Lake Sonoma, California (1982), p. 122","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnobotanical_mitigation,_Warm_Springs_Dam-Lake_Sonoma,_California_-_USACE-p266001coll1-5817.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250810161947/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnobotanical_mitigation,_Warm_Springs_Dam-Lake_Sonoma,_California_-_USACE-p266001coll1-5817.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Peri, Patterson and Goodrich, Ethnobotanical Mitigation, Warm Springs Dam-Lake Sonoma, California (1982), p. 122","source_display":"Peri, Patterson and Goodrich, Ethnobotanical Mitigation, Warm Springs Dam-Lake Sonoma, California (1982), p. 122","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer worked from manzanita wood; dimensions, cord and decoration not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded; the survey files the manzanita roarer under technological rather than ceremonial uses, beside the war club, fish hook and harpoon toggle.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"cloverdale pomo","display_name":"A roarer cut from manzanita","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NAMER-012_hearst_pomo_1-2679.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAMER-012_hearst_pomo_1-2679_thumb.jpg","alt":"A Pomo bullroarer from Coyote Valley Rancheria, with a long dark tapered blade and a loose coil of cord attached near its narrow end.","credit":"Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1-2679)","license":"© Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley","source_page":"https://portal.hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/catalog/089ace52-ebf5-4a8b-96ff-240568138422","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Pomo bullroarer from Coyote Valley Rancheria.","pool_id":"auto-NAMER-012_hearst_pomo_1-2679","last_modified":"2026-09-03"},"slug":"peri1982-001-cloverdale-pomo"}