{"id":"VOEGELIN1942-004","label":"Valley Maidu bullroarer","people_or_site":"Valley Maidu (Sacramento Valley Maidu, michopdo/Mechoopda)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Sacramento Valley, vicinity of Chico, Butte County, California","macroregion":"North America / California","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden bullroarer; no dimensions, cord detail, or Maidu name recorded.","function_summary":"Affirmed as present and as made of wood; every use put to the informant was denied — not a boys' toy, not for amusement, not weather-making, not sickness-making, not restricted to shamans or to males.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"voegelin1942_ne_california","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84125","page_or_plate":"pp. 50, 94 (elements 2116-2123)","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Chico, Butte County, California. Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Chico the Sacramento Valley Maidu — the michopdo, moved down from near Dayton onto John Bidwell's land — kept a bullroarer of wood and refused every use offered for it: not a boys' toy, not for amusement, no power over weather or sickness, no shaman's monopoly, and no rule keeping it from women. That last is the strange one, since some restriction of that kind follows the instrument across most of the world. Both upland Maidu divisions, Mountain and Foothill, said they had never had one at all. In the valley the object was remembered and its purpose was not.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Erminie W. Voegelin, Culture Element Distributions: XX, Northeast California, Anthropological Records 7:2 (1942); informant Amanda Wilson of Chico, interviewed 24-28 October 1936","url":"https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84125","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013032403/https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84125"}],"source_citations":"Erminie W. Voegelin, Culture Element Distributions: XX, Northeast California, Anthropological Records 7:2 (1942); informant Amanda Wilson of Chico, interviewed 24-28 October 1936","source_display":"Erminie W. Voegelin, Culture Element Distributions: XX, Northeast California, Anthropological Records 7:2 (1942); informant Amanda Wilson of Chico, interviewed 24-28 October 1936","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden bullroarer; no dimensions, cord detail, or Maidu name recorded.","function_display":"Affirmed as present and as made of wood; every use put to the informant was denied — not a boys' toy, not for amusement, not weather-making, not sickness-making, not restricted to shamans or to males.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"valley maidu","display_name":"Valley Maidu bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NA-S1952-002_kroeber_plate44_def.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NA-S1952-002_kroeber_plate44_def_thumb.jpg","alt":"Kroeber’s plate of three California bullroarers from Yokuts, Luiseño and Pomo communities: a short slat at left, a long corded board in the centre, and the broader Pomo specimen f at right.","credit":"A. L. Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California (BAE Bulletin 78, 1925), Plate 44","license":"Public domain (Kroeber 1925, BAE Bulletin 78)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/handbookofindian00kroe_0","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Kroeber’s plate of California bullroarers; the Pomo specimen is at right.","pool_id":"auto-NA-S1952-002_kroeber_plate44_def"},"slug":"voegelin1942-004-valley-maidu-sacramento-valley-maidu-michopdo-mechoopda"}