{"id":"SEDER1952-OW-002","label":"Umatilla bone bullroarer","people_or_site":"Umatilla","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Columbia Plateau, Oregon","macroregion":"North America / Plateau","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"","object_description":"Cut from bone or a deer rib, and also from cedar.","function_summary":"A child's toy that also worked on the weather, sometimes to bring rain.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"review2026","source_type":"academic_article","source_url":"https://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/bulletin/16-4/old_world_overtones.pdf","page_or_plate":"pp. 51, 54; Ray 1942 printed p. 184 (els. 4094-4103)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Umatilla Reservation / Pendleton area anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the Columbia Plateau the Umatilla stood in the small company of North American peoples who made their bullroarer from bone — theirs cut from bone or a deer rib as well as cedar. Across most of the continent the instrument was cedar or pine; only a scatter of peoples, the Achomawi and Arapaho among them, turned the skeleton of the hunt into the sound itself.","pull_quote":"...bone or deer rib was found among the Achomawi, Arapaho, Mono, Panamint, Kittitas, and Umatilla.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Seder, 'Old World Overtones in the New World', University Museum Bulletin 16.4 (1952), p. 54","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":"Theodore A. Seder, 'Old World Overtones in the New World,' University Museum Bulletin 16(4) (1952), pp. 51-54; Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","url":"https://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/bulletin/16-4/old_world_overtones.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250126091750/https://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/bulletin/16-4/old_world_overtones.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Theodore A. Seder, 'Old World Overtones in the New World,' University Museum Bulletin 16(4) (1952), pp. 51-54; Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","source_display":"Theodore A. Seder, 'Old World Overtones in the New World,' University Museum Bulletin 16(4) (1952), pp. 51-54; Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Cut from bone or a deer rib, and also from cedar.","function_display":"A child's toy that also worked on the weather, sometimes to bring rain.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"umatilla","display_name":"Umatilla bone bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/buschan1922_tafel7.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/thumbs/buschan1922_tafel7_thumb.jpg","alt":"Buschan’s numbered plate of Pueblo cult gear, including a looped cord and slat at no. 2.","credit":"Georg Buschan, Illustrierte Völkerkunde I (1922), Tafel VII","license":"Public domain (published 1922)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/illustriertev01busc","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Buschan’s plate of Pueblo cult gear.","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--buschan1922_tafel7"},"slug":"seder1952-ow-002-umatilla"}