{"id":"ROY1928-001","label":"Khizabarui Khizami bullroarer","people_or_site":"Angami / Khizami subgroup; Khizabarui","country_current":"India","historic_region":"Naga Hills / Khizami area","macroregion":"South Asia / Northeast India","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Thirteen-inch bullroarer used both as a toy and to scare birds.","function_summary":"Toy or bird-scarer","attestation_type":"historical_text","source_key":"roy1928_illustration17_item2","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.107911","page_or_plate":"Illustration 17 item 2","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Chizami is a representative Khizami-region anchor; the historical Khizabarui locality is not independently geocoded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A thirteen-inch bull-roarer from Khizabarui, an eastern Angami village of the Khizami, lived the double life these hills gave such things. Boys swung it on its cord for the sheer roar; carried up to the field-houses and hillside machans where families guarded the ripening crop, the same blade turned working tool, its noise flushing birds off the grain. Sarat Chandra Roy pictured it in 1928 among the bull-roarers J. H. Hutton had gathered across Angami country — game and bird-scarer in a single strip of wood.","pull_quote":"Angami bull-roarer from Khizabarui. (Khizami sub-tribe) used as a toy or bird-scarer. (13 in.)","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Sarat Chandra Roy, Oraon Religion and Customs (1928), Illustration 17 item 2","term_gloss":"Khizabarui: a village of the Khizami Angami, as Roy spelled it in 1928.","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":"Roy 1928 Illustration 17 item 2: Angami bullroarer from Khizabarui, Khizami sub-tribe, used as a toy or bird-scarer, 13 inches","url":"https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.107911"}],"source_citations":"Roy 1928 Illustration 17 item 2: Angami bullroarer from Khizabarui, Khizami sub-tribe, used as a toy or bird-scarer, 13 inches","source_display":"Roy 1928 Illustration 17 item 2: Angami bullroarer from Khizabarui, Khizami sub-tribe, used as a toy or bird-scarer, 13 inches","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thirteen-inch bullroarer used both as a toy and to scare birds.","function_display":"Toy or bird-scarer","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"historical text","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"angami","display_name":"Khizabarui Khizami bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/ROY1928-001_khizabarui.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/ROY1928-001_khizabarui_thumb.jpg","alt":"Roy’s plate of the 13-inch Angami bullroarer from Khizabarui, numbered 2: a long narrow blade hanging vertically by a cord from a horizontal support.","credit":"S. C. Roy, Oraon Religion and Customs (1928), Illustration 17, item 2","license":"Public domain","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.107911","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Roy’s 13-inch Angami bullroarer from Khizabarui, Khizami subgroup, used as a toy or bird-scarer."},"slug":"roy1928-001-angami-khizami-subgroup-khizabarui"}