{"id":"RAY1942-001","label":"Kittitas bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Kittitas","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Kittitas Valley, Yakima River, central Washington","macroregion":"North America / Plateau","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Recorded in two forms, a wooden blade of cedar and one of deer rib, whirled on a cord held in the hand without a handle.","function_summary":"A child's toy that is also a weather instrument: it calls the Chinook, the warm wind, and brings rain, and children sound it at the request of their elders.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"ray1942_plateau","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-003.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 184, elements 4094-4103","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Kittitas Valley, central Washington -- territory anchor, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Kittitas bullroarer was cedar, sometimes deer rib, whirled on a cord held in the bare hand. It was a child's toy. It influenced the weather. It called the Chinook, the warm wind that comes in off the Pacific and takes the winter apart, and it brought rain. And it was sounded by children at the request of their elders — the fact that undoes the others: the thing was in a child's hands, but the decision to sound it was not the child's to make.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (Berkeley, 1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-003.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260814094023/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-003.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (Berkeley, 1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","source_display":"Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (Berkeley, 1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Recorded in two forms, a wooden blade of cedar and one of deer rib, whirled on a cord held in the hand without a handle.","function_display":"A child's toy that is also a weather instrument: it calls the Chinook, the warm wind, and brings rain, and children sound it at the request of their elders.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kittitas","display_name":"Kittitas bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATCH3-031.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATCH3-031_thumb.jpg","alt":"A Mackenzie River wooden bullroarer with repeated triangular notches along both edges and a small knob at its tapered end.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum, Am1929,0412.54","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am1929-0412-54","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Notched leaf-shaped wooden blade, Mackenzie River","pool_id":"auto-BATCH3-031"},"slug":"ray1942-001-kittitas"}