{"id":"RAY1942-008","label":"Coeur d'Alene bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Coeur d'Alene (Schitsu'umsh)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Lake Coeur d'Alene, northern Idaho","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; the handle was denied.","function_summary":"A child's toy of cedar or deer rib, whirled from the hand; the weather function is explicitly denied.","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":"Lake Coeur d'Alene, northern Idaho -- territory anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Coeur d'Alene bullroarer was wooden, of cedar or else of deer rib, whirled from a cord held in the hand, and it was a child's toy. Against the weather it was given a flat no. That no is placed interestingly: northwest, the Kalispel also refused the weather use; northeast, over the mountains, the Kutenai claimed every weather power and called the Chinook by name. The boundary between a Plateau where the roarer works on the sky and a Plateau where it is a plaything runs somewhere across this ground, and the Coeur d'Alene answer is one of the two posts it hangs from.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["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; the handle was denied.","function_display":"A child's toy of cedar or deer rib, whirled from the hand; the weather function is explicitly denied.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"coeur alene","display_name":"Coeur d'Alene bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/rom_975-261.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/rom_975-261_thumb.jpg","credit":"Royal Ontario Museum (975.261)","license":"© ROM; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/231569/bullroarer","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Northern Ojibwa serrated wooden blade on its thong, ROM","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--rom_975-261"},"slug":"ray1942-008-coeur-d-alene-schitsu-umsh"}