{"id":"ROTH1902-001","label":"Gungganyji Cape Grafton roarer","people_or_site":"Gungganyji (Gunggandji), Cape Grafton / Jilliburri, Yarrabah peninsula","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Cape Grafton / Jilliburri, North Queensland","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"Flattened spindle-shaped wooden slat, 3-6 inches, an aperture drilled at one extremity for a string held in the hand or fixed to a small stick; rapidly revolved to roar, never engraved, sometimes painted. No Cape Grafton specimen was collected; Roth's Plate XXVIII figures are generic North Queensland types.","function_summary":"An amusement Roth filed as 'derivable from ceremonial': at Cape Grafton, as on the Bloomfield and Lower Tully, it was employed by young men and boys only, while in the northwest-central districts either sex played it at any age.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"roth_1902_cape_grafton","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15315133","page_or_plate":"Roth 1902 p. 500; Khan 1996 p. 68","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Yarrabah peninsula anchor between the Cape Grafton headland (Jilliburri, -16.868/145.918) and Yarrabah community; Gungganyji country.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Jilliburri — the granite headland Europeans renamed Cape Grafton — the roarer belonged to young men and boys alone. Roth, surveying games across North Queensland, filed it among 'amusements derivable from ceremonial': a flattened spindle of plain wood, three to six inches long, spun hard on its string and given a sudden extra jerk to make it roar. In the northwest-central districts anyone might whirl one, either sex, any age; on this coast the old line held — men and boys only.","pull_quote":"On the Bloomfield, Lower Tully, and at Cape Grafton they are employed by young men and boys only.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Walter E. Roth, Games, Sports and Amusements (1902), p. 500","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":"Walter E. Roth, Games, Sports and Amusements (North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin 4 = AAAS Section F presidential address, 1902), p. 500; Kate Khan, Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 12 (1996), p. 68","url":"https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15315133"}],"source_citations":"Walter E. Roth, Games, Sports and Amusements (North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin 4 = AAAS Section F presidential address, 1902), p. 500; Kate Khan, Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 12 (1996), p. 68","source_display":"Walter E. Roth, Games, Sports and Amusements (North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin 4 = AAAS Section F presidential address, 1902), p. 500; Kate Khan, Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 12 (1996), p. 68","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Flattened spindle-shaped wooden slat, 3-6 inches, an aperture drilled at one extremity for a string held in the hand or fixed to a small stick; rapidly revolved to roar, never engraved, sometimes painted. No Cape Grafton specimen was collected; Roth's Plate XXVIII figures are generic North Queensland types.","function_display":"An amusement Roth filed as 'derivable from ceremonial': at Cape Grafton, as on the Bloomfield and Lower Tully, it was employed by young men and boys only, while in the northwest-central districts either sex played it at any age.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"gungganyji","display_name":"Gungganyji Cape Grafton roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/HAD1898-031.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/HAD1898-031_thumb.jpg","alt":"Haddon’s figs. 235–236: five Mer bigo model blades suspended by cords from long sticks, with three narrow blades at left and two broader oval blades at right.","credit":"Haddon (ed.), Reports Cambridge Anthr. Exped. Torres Straits, vol. IV, 1912, figs. 235 & 236","license":"Public domain (published 1912)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/reports191204cambuoft","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Haddon's Mer boys' toy bullroarer models.","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--HAD1898-031"},"slug":"roth1902-001-gungganyji-gunggandji-cape-grafton-jilliburri-yarrabah-peninsula"}