{"id":"WISSLER1911-001","label":"Blackfoot children's bull roarer","people_or_site":"Blackfoot Confederacy, northern Plains","country_current":"Canada / United States","historic_region":"Blackfoot Confederacy territory","macroregion":"North America / Plains","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"Known as a children's toy, listed separately from the bone buzzer; the Teton winged bones and the snow snake were not recognized by Wissler's informants.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"wissler_1911_blackfoot","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/85","page_or_plate":"Wissler 1911, p. 54","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Blackfoot Confederacy anchor at the Alberta-Montana border; no locality or term recorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Wissler's inventory of Blackfoot childhood gives the bull roarer one plain sentence: it was known as a children's toy, beside the bone buzzer — two noisemakers, separately named. No Blackfoot word for it was written down, and nothing of how it was made; on the northern Plains the record is exactly as wide as a toy chest.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","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":"Clark Wissler, The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians (AMNH Anthropological Papers 7:1, 1911), p. 54: 'The buzzer of bone and the bull roarer were known as children's toys, but the winged bones of the Teton and the snow snake were not recognized by our informants.'","url":"https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/85","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20211021174808/https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/85"}],"source_citations":"Clark Wissler, The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians (AMNH Anthropological Papers 7:1, 1911), p. 54: 'The buzzer of bone and the bull roarer were known as children's toys, but the winged bones of the Teton and the snow snake were not recognized by our informants.'","source_display":"Clark Wissler, The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians (AMNH Anthropological Papers 7:1, 1911), p. 54: 'The buzzer of bone and the bull roarer were known as children's toys, but the winged bones of the Teton and the snow snake were not recognized by our informants.'","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Known as a children's toy, listed separately from the bone buzzer; the Teton winged bones and the snow snake were not recognized by Wissler's informants.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"blackfoot confederacy","display_name":"Blackfoot children's bull roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LOEB1929-028_mooney1896_fig93.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LOEB1929-028_mooney1896_fig93_thumb.jpg","alt":"Mooney's plate: (a) a Ghost Dance hummer of buffalo-hoof bone on two strings; (b) a notched bullroarer on one.","credit":"James Mooney, The Ghost-Dance Religion (1896), fig. 93","license":"Public domain (published 1896)","source_page":"https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/91672","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Mooney's plate: a Ghost Dance hoof hummer on two strings and a notched bullroarer.","pool_id":"auto-LOEB1929-028_mooney1896_fig93","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"wissler1911-001-blackfoot-confederacy-northern-plains"}