{"id":"WESLAGER1953-001","label":"Lenape children's roaring wood","people_or_site":"Lenni Lenape (Delaware)","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Delaware (state), Delaware valley","macroregion":"North America / Eastern Woodlands","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A flat piece of wood fastened to a string.","function_summary":"Children's toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"weslager1953_indians_of_delaware","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://udspace.udel.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/78f1d729-ec17-4812-9a71-9d80465a1355/content","page_or_plate":"pp. 6, 27","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Northern Delaware, White Clay Creek area (Weslager's Lenape village of Minguannan), as a representative Lenape point; no place is given for the toy. Kept clear of the Nanticoke Indian River anchor of NAAIN-018.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A flat piece of wood on a string, whirled until it gave a loud, roaring noise, was a plaything of Lenape children in the Delaware valley. The English called them Delawares; they called themselves Lenni Lenape, 'original men'. The roarer shared their games with a whirligig, a wooden button that hummed on a twisted string, with wooden tops spun by the fingers, corn-husk dolls, toy bows like their fathers', a game of tossing peach and plum stones into a basket, and a winter contest of sliding long sticks down a gutter of ice made in the snow.","pull_quote":"When the string was whirled around, the wood made a loud, roaring noise.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"C. A. Weslager, A Brief Account of the Indians of Delaware (1953), p. 27.","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":"C. A. Weslager, A Brief Account of the Indians of Delaware (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1953), pp. 6, 27","url":"https://udspace.udel.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/78f1d729-ec17-4812-9a71-9d80465a1355/content"}],"source_citations":"C. A. Weslager, A Brief Account of the Indians of Delaware (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1953), pp. 6, 27","source_display":"C. A. Weslager, A Brief Account of the Indians of Delaware (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1953), pp. 6, 27","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A flat piece of wood fastened to a string.","function_display":"Children's toy.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lenni lenape","display_name":"Lenape children's roaring wood","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NAAIN-005_nmai_9-7738_mattaponi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NAAIN-005_nmai_9-7738_mattaponi_thumb.jpg","alt":"Mattaponi wooden bullroarer figured by Frank Speck, with scalloped edges, a long central opening and a hole near one end.","credit":"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (9/7738)","license":"Usage Conditions Apply (NMAI)","source_page":"https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_105655","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A serrated Mattaponi roarer from Virginia, figured by Frank Speck.","pool_id":"auto-NAAIN-005_nmai_9-7738_mattaponi"},"slug":"weslager1953-001-lenni-lenape-delaware"}