Vanimo (incl. Warimo, Wutung and Yako)
bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong flags
Function not recorded

Wapei
bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong flags
Function not recorded

Wogeo
mumumu
Restricted

Boiken
bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong flags
Restricted

Tarawai Island
Restricted

Arapesh (incl.Kaboibus)

Abelam (incl.Maprik)
ulke / wulké; puku

Duo Yangoru
Sacred / spirit

Murik / Kaup / Kerau
urubaia

Kwoma

Mundugumor
Sacred / spirit

Avatip

Iatmul — Mindimbit
Schwirrholz; bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong
Function not recorded

Niaura

Chambri

Banaro

Manam Island (incl. Dugulaba)

Karkar Island (incl. Karkar-Takia, Karkar Waskia & Gubardau Takia)
Sacred / spirit

Serang

Basken

Bagabag Island

Rao

Astrolabe Bay
Tonde
vernacular of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen / Bilibili (Astrolabe Bay, Madang), language unspecified in source

Maclay Coast
Lyop-lyop

Ngaing

Tapen

Umboi Island

Sio

Siassi Islands
kani

Hube

Wampar

Kai
Ngosa
Kai (Papuan language of the mountains inland from Finsch Harbour / Finschhafen, Morobe, NE New Guinea)

Finschhafen
balum
Yabim (Jabêm) and Bukaua, Austronesian languages of the Huon Gulf, Morobe, Papua New Guinea

Cape Cretin

Lae - Womba

Bukawa / Yabim
balum
Bukaua and Yabim (Jabêm), Huon Gulf, Morobe, Papua New Guinea

Tami
kani
Tami (Austronesian, Huon Gulf, Morobe, PNG)

Huon Gulf (General)
balum
Yabim (Jabêm) and Bukaua (Austronesian, Huon Gulf, Morobe, PNG)

Busama

Gawac
Bukaua (Bukawa / Bugawac / Gawac; Austronesian, Huon Gulf, Morobe) — same word also recorded for neighbouring Yabim (Jabêm)

Guhu-Samane
Poro ungapa

Zia

Bia-Waria

Binandere

Orokaiva
umbubu

Maisin

Utuwala

Topura

Awalama

Taupota

Waima
beriwa

Tubulamo

Wapo-Era

Purari
imunu viki

Orokolo
hevehe

Elema: General
hevehe
Orokolo (Eleman family; Western Elema, Orokolo Bay, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea)

Toaripi (Motumotu)
tiparu

Moripi
tiparu
Toaripi (Motu-Motu), Eastern Elema; Moripi (Moripi-Iokea) is a name of the Toaripi language

Sepoe
tiparu
Toaripi (East Elema; Sepoe is a named dialect/village of Toaripi)

Fly River
madubu

Keraki
sosa

Kiwai
madubu
Kiwai (Trans-Fly / Western Province, Papua New Guinea)

Lake Kutubu
Play / practical

Maipka

Dom / Sinasina

Agarabi

Kafe / Kainantu

Kamano, Fore, Jate, Usurufa
obubugariye / pubunanune

Kurti

Titans (incl. M'bunai, Rambutyo Island & Mouk)

Baluan Island

Nakanai
siko
Lakalai (Nakanai), an Austronesian language of West New Britain, PNG (Bileki dialect)
Play / practical

Eklep

Mowehafen

Ramuaina / Duke of York Island

Gazelle: General
Play / practical

Tolai

Baining
salecha

Sulka
vuvu
Sulka (language isolate / non-Austronesian, Wide Bay-Cape Orford, East New Britain, PNG)

Mengen

New Hanover (incl. Tungak, Lavongai)

Nalik

Laks
talun
Siar-Lak (Lak / Siar), Austronesian (Patpatar-Tolai subgroup, Western Oceanic), southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

King / Kalil
talun; tamanbaránaŭl

Barriai
Tibuda

Buka

Hakus
rus

Pororan Island

Nasioi

Siwai

Buin (incl.Telei, Uisai)
kagepai

Bororo - Sao Lourenco and Eastern Brazil
aige

Sherente - Hieparo-wawe bullroarer
hieparo-wawe-wazdize'
Šerente (Akwẽ / Xerente; Jê family), eastern Brazil

Eastern Timbira - Canella and Chakamekra

Apinaye me-galo soul-ghost toy
me-galo

Mashacali initiation bullroarers

Karaja possible mask-dance bullroarer

Bakairi and Nahuqua upper-Xingu bullroarers
yelo

Mehinaku upper-Xingu clubhouse bullroarer
matahu / matapu

Shipaya-Kuruaya wari wari sami
wari wari sami

Ipurina fish-shaped bullroarer
yueneru

Tukuna rare bullroarer and puberty-rite context

Bora toy in renewal-resurrection festival context
tsíxtsi

Baniwa bullroarer and Botuto/Jurupari context

Omagua former child-frightening bullroarer

Koto wigo toy
wígǫ́
Koto (Orejón; Western Tukanoan), northeastern Peru

Aguano Lamisto Tschamikuro toy cluster
bōribṓri (Lamisto)

Panobo reo reo toy
rę̄òrę̄ò

Kashibo thunder-voice toy and mask context
taī

Kampa jaguar-warning bullroarer
mēromēro
Kampa (Asháninka; Arawakan), northeastern Peru / Montaña

Caripuna upper-Madeira funeral bullroarer

Chacobo toy

Itonama occurrence unknown meaning

Guarayu toy

Chiquitano / Churapa bullroarers
sukurush (Churapa) / upaspakiña (Chiquitano specimen)

Yuracare toy

Chimane toy
kakabadje

Chiriguano and Chane toy
runrun
German / English extraction | runrun via Spanish (Cavour)

Mataco Choroti Ashluslay toy cluster
koyék (-quyeq)

Mbaya-Caduveo funeral and toy bullroarer

Carib Wun-wun medicine-man bullroarer

Aruba Island zeeuw toy
zeeuw

Motilones ritual bullroarer

Choco toy and spirit-protection bullroarer

Maleku (Guatuso) Jafara divinatory bullroarer
Jafara / Lhafara; sabara (Sapper 1899)

Maya / Lacandon bullroarer

Mountain Cahuilla jimsonweed bullroarer
melawhic (northern Mountain Cahuilla); meūlakpic (southern Mountain Cahuilla)

Pomo taboo spirit-voice and curing bullroarer

Tewa San Ildefonso kiva bullroarer

Wimonuntci Ute women's-taboo bullroarer
kwiemtinömpö

Zuni ritual-warning bullroarer
Nu'nu Nan'ne / thlem-tum-a-nv-nai

Cupeno assembly-signal bullroarer
aīil

Diegueno assembly and curing bullroarer

Luiseno assembly-signal bullroarer

Mono assembly and curing bullroarer

Papago assembly and curing bullroarer
Wihoewiketeke / wewegita
Weather / fertility magic

Serrano assembly-signal bullroarer

Navajo shamanic curing bullroarer

Tonto Apache shamanic curing bullroarer

Wukchamni Yokuts curing and sorcery bullroarer
Wukchamni Yokuts (Sam Garfield; Taya'pnucau near Lemon Cove)
Southern Sierra Nevada foothills / Lemon Cove / Tulare County, California

Tanaina former curative bullroarer

Catawba Rock Hill NMAI 20-5062

Rappahannock Virginia NMAI 20-5079

Mattaponi Reservation NMAI 9-7738

Turtle Mountain Chippewa Belcourt NMAI 25-9278
North Dakota / Turtle Mountain Reservation

Ihalmiut Nueltin Lake ROM model bull-roarer 2018-21-4

Baffinland Inuit Kinngait NMAI 15-5279

Sallirmiut Southampton Island annoresiut NMAI 6-4624
annoresiut

Naskapi Davis Inlet band VanStone 176799

Kotzebue Iñupiaq wolf-scarer NMAI 26-2512

Yupik Norton Sound Saint Michael NMAI 2-9442

Clavering Island Site C East Greenland NMAI 17-9504

Nanticoke Indian River whirligig bullroarer
Delaware / Sussex County / Indian River Hundred

Eastern Cherokee Birdtown children's bullroarer
North Carolina / Qualla Boundary / Birdtown

Muscogee Creek fohfokv bull-roarer game
Muscogee (Creek) / James H. Hill text corpus
fohfokv

Koasati Coushatta Bel Abbey bull roarer
Koasati / Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana / Bel Abbey
Louisiana / Allen Parish / Bayou Blue near Elton

Sicangu Lakota Tateka yumunpi wind buzzer bullroarer
South Dakota / Rosebud Sioux Reservation
Tateka yumunpi
Tateka yumunpi; Wind Buzzer (Bull Roarer)

Chipewyan detjEndEl ne children's bull-roarer
detjEndEl ne

Konyak Tamlu kampi rain bullroarer
kampi
Weather / fertility magic

Konyak Shiong boys toy bullroarer

Angami Khonoma boys toy and bird-scarer bullroarer

Southern Sangtam Phorr athapuka tiger-attracting toy
athapuka

Rengma Meluri aowu-prurr boys toy bullroarer
aowu-prurr

Lhota Okotso threm-threm crop-season boys toy
threm-threm (thren-threm)

Sema Sumi bird-scarer and doorway-derivative bullroarers
herumu / hewu

Khasi Hills bamboo bullroarer

Malabar bamboo child's toy bullroarer

Calcutta toy bullroarer

Chittagong District Indian Museum bullroarer

Oraon Ranchi dormitory bullroarer emblem
kher-chukna (dormitory strings, "foot-scrapers"); bhurka (toy)

Fayum Ptolemaic figure possible bullroarer

Gurob papyrus Orphic Dionysian rhombos lead
rhombos

Sanikiluaq Belcher Islands ROM bullroarer sculpture
Qikiqtani / Belcher Islands Inuit / Sanikiluaq

Mackenzie River mouth BM Am1929-0412-54
Northwest Territories / Mackenzie River mouth

Northern Labrador Inuit bullroarers Whitridge

Point Hope Inupiaq wolfscarer Crossroads Alaska
wolf scarer

Ho Singhbhum children's bull-roarer
biur-biur

Santal Monghyr-Singhbhum children's bull-roarer
Santal / Singhbhum and Monghyr Districts

Munda Ranchi children's bull-roarer
hur-hur

Uukwaluudhi omathila rain and sowing Big Birds
omathila / Big Birds

Kwanyama edila circumcision Big Birds
edila / odila; omazila / omadhila

Gwana Jukun Dodo bullroarer voice and rain cult
Gwana Jukun and neighboring Dodo-cult communities
Dodo

Verre Momi Do'os harvest bullroarers
baranga; Nenga Kabusum

Matjes River MR 40 bullroarer
Southern Cape / Matjes River mouth near Keurboomstrand (Plettenberg Bay)
MR 40

Ju|'hoansi and !Kung initiation bullroarers
Tsintsabis / Oshivelo and wider Kalahari source chain
!xoe; n≠ àbí; !goin !goin

|Xam !goin !goin bee-control bullroarer
Northern Cape / |Xam Bushman source region
!goin !goin
Weather / fertility magic

Doring River rock-art bullroarer players

Lendy 1 Zimbabwe rock-art bullroarer candidate

Scotland thunder-spell bullroarer
thunder-spell

North-east Ireland boomer bullroarer
Ballycastle / County Antrim and County Down

Montgomeryshire Wales remembered roarer
roarer

Galicia San River bzik bullroarer
Poles and Ruthenians on the San River, Galicia

West Prussia Marienwerder Schwirrholz

Ancient Greek Dionysiac rhombos
rhombos

Yoruba Oro voice bullroarer
Oro

Bushman / San rain and hunting bullroarer

Xhosa / Amakosa nodiwu bullroarer
nodiwu

Point Barrow Eskimo toy bullroarer

Pima bullroarer museum specimens
Wihoewiketeke

Patani Malay elephant-scarer bullroarer
Patani Malay boatman, Kuala Langat / Selangor
Kuala Langat District, Selangor (Federated Malay States, British Malaya)
lembing buluh

Toba-Batak Sumatra toy bullroarer

Florida Solomon Islands Matambala buro
buro

Mota Banks Islands nanamatea
nanamatea

Merlav Banks Islands mourning bullroarer
worung-tamb

Mabuiag turtle-fishery bullroarer
bigur / uainis

Muralug waness bullroarer
Muralug / Prince of Wales Island, Torres Strait
waness

Mer / Murray Island boys' toy bullroarer
bigo

Kurnai Tundun bullroarer
Tundun / Rukut Tundun

Coast Murring Mudji bullroarer
Mudji

Dieri yuntha bullroarer
yuntha

Urania Tribe Linda Creek bull-roarer

Bunurang Victoria child-play bullroarer

Yuin Daramulun voice bullroarer
Mudthi
Yuin (Coast Murring), south-coast New South Wales

Gulf of Papua initiation bullroarer
Gulf of Papua peoples (Loeb's regional synthesis)

Kaya-Kaya Tugeri Sosom bullroarer
Indonesia / Papua New Guinea borderlands
Sosom

Ruk Ruk northern Bougainville warning bullroarer

Coast Miwok bullroarer
umul

Maidu child-toy bullroarer

Arapaho toy or wind bullroarer
hateikuuca

Kwakiutl winter-ceremony bullroarer
Vancouver Island / British Columbia coast

Quinault toy bullroarer

Havasupai rain bullroarer

Klamath wind bullroarer
sqiˑwʼ

Gros Ventre toy bullroarer
nakaantan

Paiute toy bullroarer
tupununoin
Northern Paiute (Numic; Honey Lake / Wadatkut band)

Kulisehu River toy bullroarer and sacred flute
yelo
Bakairí (yelo/iyelo); Mehinakú (niatäpu); Nahuquá (matähu) — Upper Xingu / Kulisehu River

Saint Marcel Magdalenian bullroarer pendant

Pin Hole Cave Gravettian bullroarer pendant

Brandberg rock-painting bullroarer depiction

Adelaide kadnomarngutta and wimmarri
kadnomarngutta / wimmarri

Port Lincoln witarna and pullakalli
witarna / pullakalli

Oscar Ranges Kimberley bullroarer

Kamilaroi Weir River murrawan and mooniburrigean
murrawan / mooniburrigean

Wiradthuri Macquarie-Bogan mudthega and moonibear
mudthega / moonibear

Culgoa wuddoolnurran and ghidjoolkumbal
wuddoolnurran / ghidjoolkumbal

Hunter-Macleay gonnandhakeen
Tribes between the Hunter and Macleay Rivers
Hunter to Macleay Rivers, New South Wales
gonnandhakeen

Shoalhaven southeast coast mooroonga
Shoalhaven River and southeast coast NSW
mooroonga / jummagong

Upper Murrumbidgee mundjeegong
Wiradthuri tribes on the upper Murrumbidgee
mundjeegong

Clarence Richmond dhooanbooka yoolundry dhalgungun
dhooanbooka / yoolundry / dhalgungun

Macleay Bellinger gheewarra ngaranya yeemboomul
gheewarra / ngaranya / yeemboomul

Burdekin River near Townsville BM Oc1977-03-1

Cairns and Mulgrave Periperipo BM Oc1900-0723-46
Periperipo

McIvor River Koko-yimidirr dunggul
dunggul

Bloomfield River initiation bullroarer instruction

Wik-Mungkan moiya and paka paka bullroarer myths
Wik-Mungkan / Archer Kendall Edward Rivers
moiya / paka paka / moipaka

Mitirinji Quoin Island panmadda
panmadda

Flinders River Mycoololl mobolctht
Mobolah

Larrakia Bidu-bidu Darwin
Bidu-bidu

Worgait Bidu or Bidju-Bidju Wagait
Bidu-Bidu / Bidju-Bidju

Iwaidja Port Essington Kurahudji
Kurrabudji / Kurahudji

Djauan Katherine Kunapippi or Kunabibbi
Kunapippi / Kunabibbi

Mungarai Roper-Mataranka Kunapippi
Kunapippi

Murinbata Karwadi Punj ngawuru
ngawuru / Punj

Yolngu bull roarer with painted python design, Arnhem Land

Kimberley District BM Oc1899-477
mero-mero

Wyndham WA Science Museum A140596

Gascoyne Mooryumkarr spirit-chaser
Mooryumkarr

Mount Margaret Hambly cat 173154

Southern Cross stone yeenma SLWA Bates 95-12
yeenma

Derby district bullroarer SLWA Bates 95-5
mudamud

Roebuck Bay whistling-stick bullroarer
Roebuck Bay district (people not recorded)
Roebuck Bay / Broome district, Western Australia

Willilambi Twilight Cove boorbing and yeenma Bates
boorbing / yeenma

Ungarinyin and Wurara/Worora closed-archive bullroarers
North Kimberley / Prince Regent and related Kimberley archive region
Bullroarers - Ungarinyin and Wurara [Worora]

Narrang-ga / Narungga restricted bullroarer

Wurunjerri / Wurundjeri initiation messenger bullroarer
Ball-berau-gan

Karadjeri / Karajarri initiation bullroarer

Warlpiri / Walbiri Gadjari bullroarers
Central Australia / Tanami Desert / Warlpiri country
Gadjari

Barda / Bardadjawa Laves bullroarer catalogue
Cape Leveque / Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley
galaguru

Antakirinya Cormier/Jones initiation bullroarer
North-west South Australia / Coober Pedy and Charlotte Waters region

Tusayan Walpi snake-dance rhombus
tovokìnpi

Apache San Carlos tzi-ditindi sounding wood
tzi-ditindi
tzi-ditindi; sounding wood; rhombus / bull roarer

Verde Valley cliff-dweller rhombus

Rio Grande Pueblo rhombus

Pecos Pueblo Kidder bull-roarer

Göbekli Tepe decorated bone spatulae

Körtik Tepe decorated perforated bone plaques
decorated perforated bone plaques / bullroarer

Hasankeyf Höyük elongated bone plaque
elongated perforated bone plaque / possible bullroarer comparison

Nahal Hemar Cave elongated bone plaques
elongated bone plaques / possible bullroarer comparison

Çatalhöyük antler bullroarer 11910.X1

La Roche de Birol Magdalenian bullroarer

Abri de Laugerie Basse Magdalenian bullroarer

Lespugue Solutrean bullroarer candidate

Badegoule Paleolithic bullroarer candidate

Stellmoor Ahrensburg reindeer-bone bullroarer

Kikuyu kiburuti child-toy survival
kiburuti

Contemporary Seri-associated Bufo ceremony bullroarer
Seri / Comcaac-associated contemporary Bufo ceremony
Bufo alvarius / sapo del amanecer context

Ambrym secret-society bullroarer

Bambara N'Domo Lion bullroarer
N'Domo / Lion

Ceylon Buddhist ceremony bullroarer

Bearn hurrumbo pastoral bullroarer
bur rumbo / hurrumbo

Navarre-Basque-Aragon brunzidor
brunzidor

Portugal zunas harvest taboo
zunas

Basque burruna and furrunfarra bullroarer
burruna / furrunfarra / zurrunbera
English/French web text; Basque/Spanish source bibliography

Cambridgeshire cattle-driving bullroarer
bullroarer / bull-roarer / 412.22 whirling aerophone

Commensacq Guidanson burrumbe rhombe
burrumbe

NMI F:1934.18 Irish Folklife bull-roarer
Irish Folklife Collection / Maynooth donor metadata

Wonghi/Wonghibon initiation bullroarer

Brisbane River initiation bullroarers
Bugerum / Wobblekum

Unmatjera Twanyirika bullroarer
luringa

Urabunna chimbaliri bullroarer
chimbaliri / tjimbaliri

Binbinga Katajalina bullroarer
watanurra / watamura

Anula Gnabaia bullroarer
mura-mura; Wi-dirpi

Nandi initiation bullroarers
ngetundo / ngetunyik

Bushongo initiation bullroarers
Iphungula
Bushongo (Bambala dialect-group, Kuba cluster); recorded in a French-language source

Boloki toy-magical bullroarer

Cuban orisha/Oro bullroarer cult
Afro-Cuban orisha worship / Oro-derived cult
Oro / bullroarer cult

English country-boys bullroarer toy

Chepara bribbun death-taboo bullroarer
Queensland / New South Wales border coast
bribbun

Arunta churinga bullroarer complex
MacDonnell Ranges / Alice Springs region
Churinga / Churinga irula

Roth north-west-central Queensland whirler complex
Pitta-Pitta, Roxburgh, Yaroinga, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, and neighboring groups
pril-ling-a; mer-pul-li-mung-i; un-mun-ja; pi-ri pi-ri; wilmurra

Ukraine 'oldest bullroarer' claim (Gregor) — superseded

Maori purerehua bullroarer
purerehua / purorohu / turorohu

Samoa lango mumu leaf toy bullroarer
lango mumu

Aitutaki patangitangi leaflet bullroarer
patangitangi

Mongol/Tuvin jada rain-stone bullroarer
Tuvin (Soyot) rite with Mongol jada-zada parallels
Tuva / Soyot and Mongol-Inner Asian jada-zada complex
jada / zada / jada tasch
English; German/Russian source chain via Radloff

Tuv Saltstraumen shale bullroarer candidate

Kongemose Denmark bone bullroarer candidate

Scania Sweden bat-attracting bullroarer magic

Norway fishermen wind-protection bullroarers

Nenets northwest Siberia ritual bullroarer

Luleå River Sámi Bieve Niila bull-roarer cave narrative
Bieve Niila at the Basseuk'sa/Ganiiuk'sa bird-stone and cave sacred place
BASSEUK'SA / GANIIUK'SA, Small Lule River / Tarrekaise sacred-site narrative

Tsou euvuvu bullroarer warning signal
Central Mountain Range / Alishan-Tsou area
euvuvu

Amis bnbn toy and bird-scarer bullroarer
Ciwidiyan / Shuilian, Shoufeng Township, Hualien
bnbn

Ainu rera-suyep wind-raising bullroarer
Ainu, Obihiro Fushiko Kotan source chain
rera-suyep / rera suyep; Japanese gloss うなり板

Tuvan khirilee performance bullroarer
Tuvan Ensemble / modern Tuvan performance context
khirilee

Yi Nisu Hecamo tatu pine ritual noisemaker
踏突 / ta tu

Siberian Eskimo eïnètkoutchin bullroarer audio lead
Siberian Eskimo / Chukchi-Eskimo anthology track
eïnètkoutchin / enietkoutchina / enietkoutchine

Mansi Shchekurya wind-calling flying board
Khanty-Mansi / Yugra / Berezovsky District
вōт вōвнэ товлыӈ пāрт / vot vovne tovlyng part
wind-calling flying board / rotating aerophone 412.21

Chukchi vyutkunen storm howler
выюткунэн / выюткунэнг / въюлгын
storm or blizzard howler / rotating aerophone 412.22

Itelmen Kovran Tigil plate-on-string aerophone
хэзвэз / к’эл-к’эл

Baule Guro bonu amuin bullroarer spirit voice
bonu amuin

Dogon Sanga Awa mask bullroarer women warning
imina na

Igbo southern Nigeria bullroarer and spirits of dead mask
odegilligilli / ode giligili / agu mmuo / agu mmonwu / agu mmanwu

Kambari Northern Nigeria child toy bullroarer

Leele Nar'a kwei Kasai bullroarer recording
Nar'a kwei

Luba Tambo palm-leaf bullroarer
possibly Tambo

Basa southern Cameroon mbam um bullroarer
Southern Cameroon / Basaa Centre-Littoral region
mbam um
Bull roarer of wood with fibre thongs (mbam um)

Eyap/Eghap Bagam death-ceremony bull-roarer
ngū muñ mo

Uganda wooden toy bullroarer

Humbi Handa lumpoku circumcision-school bullroarer
lumpoku

Gabon MIMO bromhout bullroarer

Djenne Mali MIMO bromhout bullroarer

G/wi and G//ana gíg/ù children's bullroarer
gíg/ù

Ifugao northern Luzon bamboo bullroarer
Northern Luzon / Eastern Lepanto / Northern Nueva Vizcaya
wiwiw

Dyak Hantu-Hantuan Southwest Kalimantan bullroarer
hantu-hantuan

Kenyah Klemantan Baram wat jawat rice-field bullroarer
wat jawat

Even owl-speaking bullroarer North Asia

Tinguian Patoc pabilbil bull roarer
pabilbil

Kintak Bong Lubok Tapah bull-roarer

Java kitiran child toy bullroarer analogue
Kitiran

Marind-anim Dema-voice bullroarers
sosom

Ekoi Enyara Akum club bullroarers
Enyara Akum

Baruya bullroarer in initiation
Eastern Highlands / Anga-Eastern Highlands men's cult zone

Auyana bullroarer old-man spirit voice
Eastern Highlands / Anga-Eastern Highlands men's cult zone

Tairora bullroarer male-spirit declaration
Eastern Highlands / Anga-Eastern Highlands men's cult zone

Northern Patagonia engraved-plaque churinga analogue
Northern Patagonia / Tehuelche-Gunun a Kena / Patagonian-Pampas plaque-hacha corpus
Northern Patagonia / Pampa / Bahia San Blas and related plaque-hacha find regions
placas grabadas; hachas ceremoniales; tauk a ulungasum
churinga de piedra / stone churinga analogue

Vanua Lava, Banks Islands — buro toy (mala)
mala

Maewo (Aoba), Vanuatu — buro toy (tal-viv)
tal-viv

Araga (Pentecost), Vanuatu — buro toy (tavire bua)
tavire bua

Sangtam Naga toy bull-roarer on stick
athakupa

Muria Gond bull-roarer from Markabera, Bastar

Black Forest (Germany) Schläzel bull-roarer
Black Forest folk survival (unnamed group)
Schlägel

Basel (Switzerland) fair bull-roarer
Basel fair-goers (folk survival, unnamed group)

Oglala Dakota (Pine Ridge) bull-roarer toy
tateka juihmunpi

Teton Dakota bull-roarer toy (Dorsey)
Chan kadble tunpinpi

Omaha gahoota bull-roarer toy (La Flesche)
gahoota

Apalakiri (Kalapalo) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Canela (Ramkokamekra) bull-roarer (museum specimen)
pimpó
Canela Ramkokamekrá (Timbira, Jê; Maranhão, Brazil)

Carrier (Dakelh) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Chiricahua Apache bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Hunkpapa Lakota bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Jemez (Walatowa) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Kamia (Kumeyaay) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Karok (Karuk) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Lardil bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Lenca bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Makah bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Mapuche bull-roarer (museum specimen)
Furfurcabue

Miskito bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Mohave (Mojave) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Mushuau Innu (Naskapi) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Quechan (Yuma) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Waiwai bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Wauja (Waurá) bull-roarer (museum specimen)
matapu / aripe

Ovimbundu bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Cashinahua asu bullroarer (INC 1978)
asu

Masingara bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Wardaman bull-roarer (museum specimen)
Kuraba

Mulga Downs (rock-art) bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Taulil bull-roarer (museum specimen)
tandaravakwe

Malekula (Nivivbur) bull-roarer (museum specimen)
Nevin or.or ndeling

Bensbach bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Pipil (Nahua-Pipil) bull-roarer (museum specimen)
rung rung

Karbi bull-roarer (museum specimen)

Algamurra (Aboriginal Australian) bull-roarer (museum specimen)
Wilmurra

BaAka bullroarer in the elanda dance, Kenyé (Sarno recording)

Hausa bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
KURA

Sotho bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Tiv bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
abume

Birdungu bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Martuthunira bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
Boonangharry

Nyamal bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
bonangharry / cora

Wajarri / Wadjarri bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
Churinga

Yindjibarndi bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
purliwarna
Yindjibarndi (Ngayarda / Ngarda-ngarli, Pilbara, WA)

Bosman bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
luana murup
Bosman (Papua New Guinea; language unspecified in source)

Jare bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
emouno

Goaribari bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Kamaiurá bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
parapara / uriwuri
hori hori (Barron); parapara, uriwuri (Bastos 1978)

Sanumá bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Mi'kmaq bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Cypriot bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Konyak Naga bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
Ma

Chakhesang Naga bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Thadou (Kuki) bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Anga (Angu) bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
akwi-ó
Anga (Kukukuku; Angan family, Morobe Province, PNG)

Arab (Saharan) bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
SAYID

Scottish bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
THUNNER-SPEHL

Maipua bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
imunu viki

Kuba bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
KOINAMBULA

Egba (Yoruba) bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)

Sawos bull-roarer (museum)

Yonggom bull-roarer (museum)
kanim / watmung yawat

Kanum bull-roarer (museum)

Pume bull-roarer (museum)

Hesquiaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) bull-roarer (museum)

Kaluli bull-roarer (museum)

Kamoro bull-roarer (museum)
payu / mirapoway

Asmat bull-roarer (museum)
bian

Kundu bull-roarer (museum)

Bongu bull-roarer (museum)

Nunggubuyu bull-roarer (museum)

Gogodala bull-roarer (museum)

Tojo lelempali leaf bullroarer
lelempali

Urama bull-roarer (museum)
kaiaimunu

Bristol Bay bull-roarer (Penn 18400)
Bristol Bay provenance (historic catalogue: Eskimo)

Seri bull-roarer (museum)
Bahia de Kino (Kino Bay), Hermosillo Municipality, Sonora

Warnindhilyagwa bull-roarer (museum)

Matsigenka bull-roarer (museum)

Xavante bull-roarer (museum)

Kayapo bull-roarer (museum)

Fali bull-roarer (museum)
Uni

Bassari bull-roarer (museum)
akotikoti

Kapriman bull-roarer (museum)
Furtedjuwi

Iari bull-roarer (museum)
imunu viki

Mangisa bull-roarer (museum)
Imbakiyam

Amhara bull-roarer (museum)
Rorata / Furrit

Toma bull-roarer (museum)
Guri

Bedik bull-roarer (museum)
Nyandemém

Koma bull-roarer (museum)

Bamba bull-roarer (museum)

Maria Gond bull-roarer (museum)
Burunga (halbi); ait (Hill Maria, per Grigson)

Solos bull-roarer (museum)

Otomi bull-roarer (museum)

Swampy Cree bull-roarer (museum)

Moose Cree bull-roarer (museum)

Mentawai bull-roarer (museum)

Nias bull-roarer (museum)

Medieval European Holy-Spirit bullroarer emblem
European mystics of the Middle Ages (Albigensian / Cathar tradition)

Mesbilja Chiapas bullroarer (museum)

Kuikuro bull-roarer (museum)

Tembé (Tenetehara) bullroarer, Pará, 1957

Pritzerber See Late Paleolithic bone bull-roarer
Pritzerber See, Havelland; Late Paleolithic (14000-10000 v. Chr.)
Schwirrgeraet

El Pendo Magdalenian bramadera
Cueva de El Pendo, Cantabria; Magdalenian attribution debated within the corpus
bramadera

Koriki bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
koe / kwoi

Banda
ngàkôlâ

Fang (Pangwe)
edibo'ngo (Kinderfresser / child-eater)

Lamba
lendya

Mofu
Mandara Mountains / Gudur, Far North Cameroon

Mundang (Moundang)
ban-mafali / Mafalli / Falliku / Mafalli-serre

Goula Iro Yonto bullroarer, Boum Kabir
Boum Kabir, north shore of Lake Iro, southeastern Chad
yondo / yonto

Tupuri (Toupouri)

Kipsigis

Bobo
aliwe

Bwa (Bwaba)
Black Volta / San-Tominian, Mali-Burkina border
Dwo / aliwe / linisa

Nungu
Juju

Senufo (Senoufo)
Korhogo-Boundiali, northern Cote d'Ivoire / SE Mali
rhombe(s)

Makasae (Makasai)
mumu

Rote (Roti)
Southwest Rote island (off SW Timor), Nusa Tenggara Timur
babak

Sinhalese
runa

Jalor (Yala) Malays
Patani region, Kampong Jalor (Yala, S. Thailand)
baling / baling / berbaling

Tsimshian
Lower Skeena and Nass rivers, northern BC coast

Yupno
Nokopo village, Finisterre Range, Madang Province
numbung

Noanamá (Waunana / Wounaan)
sigur-wauna

Cubeo (Kobeua / Kubeo)
Upper Vaupés / Cuduiarí and Querarí rivers

Kimam (Kolepom / Frederik-Hendrik Island)
Frederik-Hendrik Island (Pulau Yos Sudarso / Kolepom), south coast
Jet / Wèwi; Kuriowa (Wanggambi)

Yei-nan (Yei / Yey)
Upper Maro River, Merauke regency, near the PNG border
kupor

Masakin (Mesakin, Nuba)

Sherbro
min

Wiknatara (Wik-Iiyanh)
moiya / pakapaka / moipaka

Kaitish (Kaytetye)
churinga

Wambaya (Umbaia) Beetaloo purtuli
Beetaloo Waterhole (Briggs Lagoon), Barkly Region
Purtuli

Biripi (Birpai)
Manning River / Hastings River (Taree, Port Macquarie)
gonnandhakeen

Murawari (Muruwari)
Culgoa / Bokhara / Birrie / Nebine Rivers
wuddoolnurran (large) / ghidjoolkumbal (small)

Theddora (Dhudhuroa)
Mitta Mitta / Kiewa / Upper Murray (Omeo, Wodonga)
madjigani / yirragaminanga

Tjingilli (Jingulu)
Purtiili

Bangerang (Pangerang)
Murray-Goulburn River, northern Victoria and southern NSW (Cummeragunja)

Ngarigo
Monaro / Snowy Mountains (Cooma, Bombala)
Mudji

Wolgal (Walgalu)
Mudji

Geawe-gal

Gringai Torikotti bullroarer
Torikotti

Worimi
goonanduckyer

Butchulla (Badtjala)
K'gari (Fraser Island) and adjacent Hervey Bay coast
Bon'da'ban

Kaiabara
Wide Bay - Burnett, inland from Maryborough
Pundunda

Wathi-wathi (Wadi-wadi) Kalari Burbung bullroarer
Murray River around Balranald / Tooleybuc
Kalari

Itchumundi
Bungumbelli (large) / Purtali (small)

Roncal Valley shepherds
furrumbla (matalobos)

Bourrouilla (Arancou) cave
rhombe

La Vache cave
rhombe

Lortet cave
rhombe

Le Morin cave

Aitzbitarte IV cave
bramadera

Bolinkoba cave
bramadera

Kambrambo

Kayan (Borneo) padi-clearing bullroarer

Athenian Sabazios mysteries (Glaukothea / Aeschines)
konos / rhombos

Phrygian Cybele / Mt Dindymon
Phrygia / Mysia (Cyzicus region; Hellenistic aetiology)
rhombos / trochos

Tangkhul Naga

Ngarinyin (Ungarinyin)

Pitjantjatjara
Anangu lands, NW South Australia / SW Northern Territory near Uluru
tjurunga

Mijikenda (Wanika)
Coastal hinterland behind Mombasa (Kaya forests)

Tanala
tavovoka

Sakalava
SW Madagascar, districts of Beroroha and Sakaraha
kitambovo (Beroroha); tambovo (Sakaraha)

Ngati Porou (turorohu rain rite)
turorohu / huhu

Moriori (Chatham Is. whale-bone find)

Nordeste Brazil folk rói-rói (zunidor)
Nordeste (sertao); sold at feiras across the region
roi-roi (Nordeste) / zunidor (Rio de Janeiro) / berra-boi / sonidor / zumbidor

Slavey (Dene)

Piedmont folk rombo
rombo

Kongo (Bakongo)
ngwingwingwe

Teke (Bateke)

Bembe (Babembe)
Bouenza / Mouyondzi plateau (Lower-Congo cluster)

Babali (Bali)

Bakumu (Komo)

Babira (Bira)

Bangelima (Ngelima)

Bapopoi (Popoi)

Wagenia (Genya)

Lokele

Wanyanza

Barundi

Gwari (Gbagyi) oath rite
Gbagyi homeland (Niger State / FCT Abuja)

Boven-Bian Marind (Ezam cult)
Upper Bian River, kampong Mandoem, Merauke
Ezam (the bromhout embodies it)

Groningen snorrebot
snorrebot

Bali Nyonga (harvest warding)

Bafia (elume cult)
(cult name: elume)

Kagaba (Kogi)
seibuka

Kilenge (nausan)
nausan

Kiliwa

Argyllshire srannair
Argyllshire (W Highlands); also seen in use in Edinburgh
srannair

Semaq Beri (Evans's Sakai-Jakun) lightning bullroarer myth
Semaq Beri (Evans's 'Sakai-Jakun'), Tekai River

East-coast Malays (presence note)
lembing buluh

Yimar (Korowori)
Upper Korowori (Karawari) River, East Sepik
irimundur

Bapere (atuamba)
Pere country, North Kivu (Manguredjipa area)
atuamba

Bahia de Los Angeles cave find
Bahía de los Ángeles burial cave, Baja California

Biliau (Rai Coast)

Zande (atuamba chain)
(atuamba type)

Mbole (atuamba chain)
(atuamba type)

Bangba / Ngbaka egburuburu
egburuburu / atuamba type
egburuburu / rhombe / bull-roarer; atuamba chain

Mayogo (atuamba chain)
(atuamba type)

Aimeri (atuamba chain)

Amanga (atuamba chain)

Andebogo (atuamba chain)

Andowi (atuamba chain)
kundrukundru

Kono (gueyoumo)
Guinee forestiere (Lola region), Haute-Guinee francaise
gueyoumo ('deep/muffled sound')

Yaraikanna (umbalako)
Cape York tip (Somerset hinterland), Queensland
umbalako / iwaika (large); maumata (small)

Moando area (Madang)
Moando-Sprachgebiet, NE New Guinea (Madang hinterland)

Korana (burubush)
burubush

Tswana (seburuburu)
Tswana country (SE Botswana / NW South Africa)
seburuburu

Ende, Flores (jata)
jata

Sango / Ngbandi bimbi
bimbi

Borli/Boli (Waria watershed)
bora

Mawai (Waria watershed)

Mamvu (Grove/van Geluwe)
(atuamba-cluster term)

Nyali (upa) (Grove/van Geluwe)
Oupa

Bagbwa (Grove/van Geluwe)
egburuburu / arumvu-rumvu

Adoi (Grove/van Geluwe)
kundrukundru

Sundanese (kekinciran)
kekinciran

La Paloma cave Magdalenian bramadera
Asturias / Soto de Las Regueras; Middle Magdalenian

Altamira cave bramadera candidate
Cantabria / Altamira; advanced Solutrean or Magdalenian attribution debated

Isturitz cave Magdalenian bramaderas
Pyrenees-Atlantiques / Isturitz level II; Middle Magdalenian
bramadera / rhombe

Raymonden/Chancelade bramadera fragment candidate
bramadera / rhombe

Grotte des Eyzies bramadera fragment candidate
Dordogne / Les Eyzies; Magdalenian final attribution
bramadera / rhombe

Bozo Nouhoun-Bozo boys' rhombe

Tusia Do-society metal rhombe

Ekkpe eastern Nigeria ceremony bull-roarer
Ekkpe / Ekpe society (Ibibio-Efik-Ekoi spread)
Eastern Nigeria / Cross River-Calabar-Ibibio-Ekoi region

Mbuti (BaMbuti), Ituri Forest
Ituri Forest, northeastern Congo (Ituri Province), DRC

Sagada (Northern Kankanay / Lepanto-Bontok Igorot)
Sagada (Lepanto-Bontok / Northern Kankanay Igorot), Mountain Province, Luzon
Sagada, western Mountain Province, Cordillera Central, northern Luzon (Northern Kankanay / former Lepanto territory)
bawengweng

Mardu (Mardudjara) Western Desert sacred-board bullroarer
Mardu / Mardudjara (Western Desert; Jigalong)
Western Desert of Western Australia, around Lake Disappointment (Kumpupintil) on the Little Sandy / Gibson Desert margins; people now centred on Jigalong

Nambutji
Northern Western Desert, Luritja-speaking country north of the Pitjantjatjara and west of the Aranda, around the Mount Liebig–Haasts Bluff–Lake Macdonald corridor on the Northern Territory side near the Western Australia border
windirpiri

Pindupi (Pintupi)
Western Desert, between Lake Mackay and Lake Macdonald along the WA/NT border (Kintore Range / Walungurru); Roheim's Pindupi data gathered from his 1929 base at Hermannsburg in Central Australia
mandagi (Luritja group); namatuna
Luritja / Western Desert language (Pindupi being one of the Luritja-speaking tribes; namatuna is Roheim's Aranda form)

Yumu (Jumu)
Western MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory — Haast Bluff (Paura) and Mount Liebig country, west of the central MacDonnell Ranges
namatuna
Aranda / Luritja (Western Desert language)

Mara (Marra)
Mara (Marra), western Gulf of Carpentaria, mouth of the Limmen Bight River
Coastal country around the mouth of the Limmen Bight River, southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, between the Roper River and Maria Island, Northern Territory
watanurra
Mara (Marra) / Binbinga (Spencer & Gillen orthography)

Venice el motor bullroarer
Boys of Venice (Fondamente Nuove / Calle delle Tre Croci)
el motor

Ingalik (Deg Hit'an)
Ingalik (Deg Hit'an), lower Yukon / Innoko River, interior Alaska
Deg Hit'an (Ingalik) territory, lower Yukon and Innoko rivers, Anvik-Shageluk-Holy Cross region, interior Alaska

Chemehuevi (Southern Paiute)
Chemehuevi (Southern Paiute), eastern Mojave Desert and Chemehuevi Valley, lower Colorado River
Eastern Mojave Desert and Chemehuevi Valley along the lower Colorado River (southeastern California / western Arizona)

Classic Lillooet (St'át'imc) — Keatley Creek (EeRl 7)
Classic Lillooet (St'át'imc) — Keatley Creek pithouse village (EeRl 7)
Middle Fraser Canyon (Interior Plateau), British Columbia; St'át'imc (Lillooet) territory between Xaxlip/Fountain and Ts'kwaylacw/Pavilion, ~20-25 km upstream of Lillooet

Coast Yuki
Pacific coast of Mendocino County, roughly the Noyo River north to the Sinkyone boundary (Westport–Usal heartland), northern California
tinem

Kato (Cahto)
Cahto Valley and Long Valley, head of the South Fork of the Eel River, near Laytonville and Branscomb, Mendocino County, northern California
telbut

Lake Miwok
Coyote Valley and the south end of Clear Lake, Lake County, north-central California (around present-day Middletown)
ladiladi

Tübatulabal
Upper Kern River and South Fork Kern River drainages, Kern River Valley, southern Sierra Nevada, Kern County, California

Boazi (Boadzi / Kuni / Zimakani)
Boazi (Boadzi / Kuni-Boazi; incl. Zimakani / Suki ethnonyms)
Lake Murray and its central/northern shores plus the middle reaches of the Fly River, Western Province (southern lowlands)
aut
Boadzi (Boazi), Trans-Fly / Middle Fly, South New Guinea

Yam (Iama) Islanders
Yam / Iama Islanders (Kulkalgal), central Torres Strait
Yam (Iama) Island, central Torres Strait; territory of the Kulkalgal central-island people (Yam paired with neighbouring Tutu)
bigu
bigu (large bull-roarer; the small form is wanes); the painted garden-charm slab was called madub or bigu
Kalaw Lagaw Ya (Kulkalgau Ya dialect, Western-Central Torres Strait Language)

Moa (Mua) Islanders
Moa (Mua) Islanders, western Torres Strait (Kauralaig group)
Moa (Mua / Banks) Island, western Torres Strait, Queensland
wanes
Kala Lagaw Ya (Western Torres Strait language)

Keriri / Hammond Island initiation bull-roarer (wanes)
Keriri / Hammond Island (Kaurareg), western Torres Strait
Keriri (Hammond Island), Prince of Wales / Muralug group, western Torres Strait, Queensland
wanes

Ngatatara (Ngadadjara) — namatuna
Western Desert, centred on the Warburton Ranges (eastern WA, extending into SW Northern Territory and NW South Australia); the namatuna myth was recorded by Roheim from the Ngatatara man Kulaia (with the Aranda man Thomas) at Hermannsburg Mission, Aranda country (NT)
namatuna
Aranda/Luritja (Western Desert); Roheim glosses the small bull-roarer as Aranda namatuna and Luritja mandagi (p. 82), recorded for his central-group informants including the Ngatatara man Kulaia

Matuntara (Kukata)
Matuntara (Kukata / Southern Luritja), western neighbours of the Aranda, Central Australia
Matuntara (Kukata) country south of the Levi Range, around the Palmer River tributary of the Finke River, eastward to Erldunda and westward to Curtin Springs, straddling the Northern Territory / South Australia border
namatuna (Aranda); mandagi (Luritja)

Mularatara (Matuntara)
Southern Western Desert: Palmer River country south of the Levi Range, east to Erldunda and west to Curtin Springs, extending across the Northern Territory border into northern South Australia
namatuna
Western Desert (Matuntara / Southern Loritja)

Iliaura (Alyawarre)
Upper Sandover River region, north-east of the MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory (Iliaura/Alyawarre country, immediately north of the Arunta)
churinga
Arandic (Arunta-group term applied across the central heartland tribes incl. Iliaura)

Nyulnyul (Nyul Nyul), Beagle Bay
Western side of the Dampier Peninsula (Beagle Bay area), Kimberley region, Western Australia
mudamud

Lala (cimwimwi), Chibale
Lala (baLala), Chibale chiefdom, Serenje District
Chibale chiefdom, southwest Serenje District, Central Province
cimwimwi
cimwimwi (also cimwimwi ca musowa wa nkalamo, "lion-roarer")

Kings Tableland bullroarer stencils
New South Wales / Blue Mountains / Kings Tableland

Burgess Point / Port Hedland Complex bullroarer motif
Burgess Point / Stingray Creek Area, Port Hedland Complex
Western Australia / Pilbara / Port Hedland / Burgess Point

Comcaac (Seri) Isla Tiburón bullroarer

Northern Ojibwa bullroarer, Weagamow Lake

Yukon First Nations medicine rod with attached bull-roarer
Yukon First Nations, upper Yukon borderlands
Yukon / Scottie Creek-Titus upper Yukon region

Oayana (Wayana) yolok eu calabash bullroarer
Litani, Paloemeu-Tapanahoni, Jari and Paru borderlands
yolok eu

Sirorata sova bullroarer (Oro Province)
sova

Lala (Nara) biliva model bullroarer, MAA E 1905.242
Lala (Nara), Central Province, Papua New Guinea
Central Province / Kairuku Hiri District / Lala (Nara) area
Biliva

Uramot Baining salek bullroarers (Bateson, New Britain)
East New Britain / Gazelle Peninsula / Latramat-Kainagunen
SALEK

Mali Baining bullroarers, Iwon (Bateson, 1928)
East New Britain / Gazelle Peninsula / Iwon
alendanga / anlqiek / galupka

Blantyre, Malawi bullroarer

León zumbador (bramadera)
zumbador / bramadera

Egypt bull-roarer, Blackman collection (Cambridge MAA)

Konyak Naga rain-making bullroarer, Wakching

Yalemba-Ligasa Upper Congo bullroarers
Yalemba-Ligasa area, Upper Congo (?Topoke / ?Olombo / ?Lokele)

Timne cane bullroarer, Mabum
Ausif ketokodu

Turkish toothed bullroarers, Eldivon (fırıldak)
fırıldak / vırıldak / kıcırdak

Bullroarer (fırıldak), Çakmak Köyü, Edirne
fırıldak / virildak / kicirdak

Toothed bullroarers from Aziziye Köyü, Burdur
fırıldak / virildak / kıcırdak

Medieval bone bull roarer, Oxfordshire

Bone bullroarer, Early Woodland site 40HW44 (Hawkins County, Tennessee)
Tennessee / Hawkins County / site 40HW44

Castaic Cave Chumash funerary lot, collected by Stephen Bowers (1885)
Castaic Cave, Los Angeles County, California (Chumash)
California / Los Angeles County / Castaic Cave

Hopi bullroarer, Songoopavi (image withheld)
Arizona / Hopi Reservation / Second Mesa / Songoopavi (Shongopovi)

Hopi thunder-stick bullroarer, Mishongnovi
Arizona / Hopi Reservation / Second Mesa / Mishongnovi (Musangnuvi)

Mesa Grande Diegueño bullroarer (image withheld)
Mesa Grande Diegueño, San Diego County, California
California / San Diego County / Mesa Grande Reservation

Alkmaar brommer (bullroarer)
Brommer

Narom bullroarer, Lower Baram, Sarawak

Orokaiva bullroarer, Kokoda District
British New Guinea / North Division / Kokoda District

Namau "Imunu Viki" bullroarer, Baroi River
Gulf Province / Purari Delta / Naman District / Baroi River / Ukiaravi
Imunu Viki

Kairu (Koriki) "imunu-viki" bullroarer, Purari Delta
Gulf Province / Purari Delta / Naman District / Kairu
Imunu-viki

Inyo County denticulated toy bullroarer

Sunday Island bullroarer (Mjöberg expedition)
Western Australia / Kimberley / Sunday Islands

Roebourne bullroarer (SMVK)

Mairipepia wooden rhombe

Bororo rhombe from Kejara, collected by Lévi-Strauss
Bororo, Kejara (Rio Vermelho, Mato Grosso)
Mato Grosso / Rio Vermelho / Aldeia Kejara
aige

Roro rhombes, Yule district (Quai Branly 1933 lot)
Central Province / Bereina subdistrict / Roro Islands
beriwa

Cardboard toy-aircraft bullroarer, Tainan

Eastern Mataco bullroarer, Bermejo River

Northern Paiute toy-and-charm bullroarer
Toy and charm to drive away evil spirits; bullroarer

Mount Barnett bullroarer (SMVK)
Western Australia / Kimberley / Mount Barnett

Bullroarer, Powell-Cotton Angola collection (British Museum)

Ankave-Anga bullroarer (Suowi Valley)
Southern Anga territory, northernmost Gulf Province at the Morobe / Eastern Highlands junction (Suowi-Mbwei Valley)

"Devil-Chaser" bullroarer, St. Lawrence Island
St. Lawrence Island Yupik (Siberian Yupik), Bering Sea, Alaska
St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska Territory

Mer rain-making bullroarer (bigo)
Meriam (Mer / Murray Island), Eastern Torres Strait
Mer (Murray Island), Eastern Islands, Torres Strait, Queensland
bigo

Northern Pomo black bullroarer made by Sam Tony, 1906
Northern Pomo (maker Sam Tony), Mendocino County, California
Northern Pomo territory, upper Russian River drainage, Mendocino County, California
ma-dim / pa-doch

Levlugtaq, Yup'ik bull roarer from Toksook Bay
Yup'ik (Nunakauyarmiut) / Toksook Bay, Nelson Island
Alaska / Nelson Island, central Bering Sea coast (Yukon-Kuskokwim region)
Levlugtaq

Bukaua bullroarer (Neuhauss, VI 29955)
Morobe (former German New Guinea / Nordost-Neuguinea)
banko lanqua

!goin!goin bull-roarer of the Kalahari San (Kirby collection)
|'Auni and ‡Khomani Bushmen (San), southern Kalahari
Southern Kalahari (Gordonia district, Northern Cape), around Twee Rivieren
!goin!goin; fur fur

Dogon rhombe of Yougo Dogorou, the village where the Sigui begins
Yougo Dogorou, Bandiagara escarpment, Mopti region (French Sudan at the time of the Dakar-Djibouti mission)
imina na

Ammassalik Inuit bullroarer (Quai Branly)
Ammassalik district, Groenland oriental (East Greenland)
imitita

Arrernte initiation bullroarer collected by P.M. Byrne, Charlotte Waters (1896)
Lower (Southern) Arrernte, Charlotte Waters, Central Australia
Charlotte Waters telegraph station, southern Northern Territory near the South Australian border; Lower / Southern Arrernte (Arandic) country
tywerrenge
Arrernte (Arandic); shared across Arandic varieties incl. Lower/Southern Arrernte (Pertame); modern Eastern/Central Arrernte orthography

Bullroarer as a night watchman's anti-thief alarm, Nupe country
Yoruba watchman, Katsa (riverine Nupe country)
Katsa, a Kede/Nupe creek-side trading village near Egga on the Niger, Bida Emirate, Niger Province, Northern Nigeria (now Niger State)

Yoruba bull-roarer from Togoland (NMNH 279049)
Yoruba (Ana-Ife) of Togoland, around Atakpame, central Togo
German Togoland (central plateau, Atakpame country); modern central Togo

Haida bull-roarer, Haida Gwaii (Dawson collection, 1878)
Haida, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands)
Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia

Mimikur bullroarer songs, Mount Gambier region
Bunganditj / Meintangk / Tanganekald, southeast South Australia
Southeast of South Australia (Mount Gambier, Lacepede Bay, lower Coorong); southern Ngarrindjeri-family country
Mimikur
Mimikur (glossed "bullroarer" by Tindale); English "bullroarer"

Lake Naddern Peabody bullroarer
Namendarra Lake, Shire of Laverton, Western Australia (Peabody: 'Lake Naddern')

Drysdale River Kimberley Peabody bullroarer
Western Australia / Kimberley / Drysdale River

Pavlovian rhombe — the sourced 'oldest bullroarer' claim

Mal'ta engraved ivory plaque (churinga analogy)
Irkutsk Oblast, River Belaya; Mal'ta–Buret' culture (Gravettian-age)
engraved ivory plaque / churinga analogue

Chahai jade bi-shaped blades (匕形器) — bullroarer-form 'pendants'
Liaoning, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County; Chahai site, Xinglongwa culture horizon (~8000–7600 BP)
玉匕形器

Xinglongwa type-site jade bi-shaped blades (匕形器)
Aohan Banner, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia; Xinglongwa site, type-site of the Xinglongwa culture (~8200–7400 BP)
玉匕形器

Xiaonanshan jade bi-shaped blades (玉匕) — Ussuri, ~9000 BP
Raohe County, Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang; Xiaonanshan site on the Ussuri River, early jade horizon (~9200–8600 BP)
玉匕

Beifudi jade bi-shaped blade (玉匕) — from a sacrificial ground
Yixian County, Baoding, Hebei; Beifudi site, Phase 1 (~8000–7000 BP), Taihang piedmont
玉匕

Xibenbaoleng tomb jade bi-shaped blades (匕形器) — jue at the head, blades at the waist
Bairin Right Banner, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia; Xibenbaoleng tomb, Xinglongwa culture (~8200–7400 BP)
玉匕形器

Xinglonggou House 22 jade bi-shaped blades (匕形器)
Aohan Banner, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia; Xinglonggou site, Xinglongwa culture (~8000 BP)

Kuwano spatula-shaped pendants (箆状垂飾) — Early Jomon Japan
Awara City, Fukui Prefecture, Hokuriku (Honshu), Japan; Kuwano site, Early Jomon (~7000–6500 BP)
箆状垂飾 / 匙形器

Chertovy Vorota (Devil's Gate Cave) nephrite bi-shaped blades — Primorye
Primorsky Krai, Dalnegorsk district, Russia; Chertovy Vorota (Devil's Gate) cave, Rudnaya culture (~7000–6500 BP)
匕形器 (Chinese literature) / подвески

Yoshimine site — bullroarer-form candidate
Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan; Yoshimine site, Early Jomon
箆状垂飾

Sannai-Maruyama short-rectangular pendant lead — bullroarer-form candidate
短冊形垂飾品
短冊形垂飾品; 石製垂飾品; rectangular/stone pendant; serpentinite pendant

Sannai-Maruyama official stone pendant 9530 — bullroarer-form candidate
Aomori, Japan; Sannai-Maruyama official object 9530
石製垂飾品
石製垂飾品; 有孔石製品; stone pendant; official Sanmaru Search object

Novopokrovka / Novopokrovskoe nephrite blesny lead — bullroarer-form candidate
Novopokrovka / Novopokrovskoe nephrite blesny lead
Middle Amur / Amur Oblast; Novopokrovka or Novopokrovskoe route
блесны
блесны; nephrite slat-lures; grooved spoon/lure objects; 匕形器 in Chinese diffusion literature

Ishihara site large hera-shaped pendant — bullroarer-form candidate
ヘラ状垂飾

Yamaguchidai site large hera-shaped pendant — bullroarer-form candidate
ヘラ状垂飾

Endo Hiroya site large hera-shaped pendant — bullroarer-form candidate
Endo Hiroya site large hera-shaped pendant
Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan; Endo Hiroya site
ヘラ状垂飾

Mitsugosawa-naka site large hera-shaped pendant — bullroarer-form candidate
Takasaki, Gunma, Japan; Mitsugosawa-naka site pit 75
ヘラ状垂飾; hera-shaped pendant; spatula-shaped pendant; report label 玉斧

Miharadajo site no.432 large hera-shaped pendant — bullroarer-form candidate
Miharadajo site no.432 large hera-shaped pendant
Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan; Miharadajo site no. 432
ヘラ状垂飾; hera-shaped pendant; spatula-shaped pendant; 玉錘 report label

Kondon nephrite blesny / Lower Amur slat-lure — bullroarer-form candidate
Kondon nephrite blesny / Lower Amur slat-lure
Kondon / Kondon-Pochta, Lower Amur, Khabarovsk Krai
нефритовая блесна
нефритовая блесна; желобчатая пластинка из нефрита; grooved nephrite slat-lure

Mikamine site no.268 slate pendant — bullroarer-form candidate
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; Mikamine site no. 268
垂飾品
垂飾品; slate pendant; perforated slate plate; drilled pendant; non-classic sound-object candidate

Aomori Kiyou 30 Figure 7 perforated polished-stone-axe / stone-product set — bullroarer-form candidate
Aomori Kiyou 30 Figure 7 perforated polished-stone-axe / stone-product set
Aomori/Hokkaido comparative corpus; Aomori Kiyou 30 Fig. 7 and Nakano B crosswalk
有孔石斧
有孔石斧; 穿孔を有する磨製石斧; 石製品; 篦状垂飾; 垂飾; 環状石斧 comparison

Niudaokou village / Baodi lead — bullroarer-form candidate
玉匕
玉匕; 玉匕形器; 玉匕形饰; 匕形玉坠; 玉玦 combination

Kurawa site — bullroarer-form candidate
Kurawa site, Hachijo Island, Tokyo, Japan
ヘラ状垂飾; 棒状垂飾; hera-shaped pendant; rod pendant; spatula-shaped pendant

Heiwa site stone-axe-shaped pendant — bullroarer-form candidate
Urahoro, Hokkaido, Japan; Heiwa aggregate route
石斧型垂飾
石斧型垂飾; 短冊形の垂飾; 軟玉製装飾品; 有孔石斧

Usukubo site official pendant group — bullroarer-form candidate
Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan; Usukubo site pendant group
垂飾
垂飾; stone pendant; serpentinite/tuff polished pendant; top-holed slat/broad pendant group

Nokubi site trapezoid pendant-like object — bullroarer-form candidate
Goto Islands, Nagasaki, Japan; Nokubi site
垂飾品
垂飾品; possible 箆状垂飾 comparator; trapezoid pendant-like object

Rokkanda Minami Figure 4 no.4 upper-holed stone product — bullroarer-form candidate
Rokkanda Minami Figure 4 no.4 upper-holed stone product
Itoigawa, Niigata, Japan; Rokkanda Minami site
stone product
stone product; upper-holed pendant/blank; tremolite/nephrite-adjacent production assemblage

Ao Naga ungungtsü boys-only illness-taboo bullroarer
Ao country, Mokokchung district, Nagaland (Naga Hills, Assam at time of source)
ungungtsü (Chongli); ahpü chayip (Mongsen)

Punjab ghirknu children’s toy
Punjabi Dalit communities historically recorded as “Chuhra”
India / Pakistan (undivided Punjab at time of source)
ghirknu

Mande Komo-complex sacred hidden Schwirrholz (Frobenius 1908)
Malinke / Bambara (Bamana) secret societies — Komo (Komang/Koma), Nama and allied cults
Upper Niger between the upper Senegal and the Bani ("Central Mandingo" country)

Khanty vot vokhty asking-for-wind whirler (Kazym)
Kazym river, Beloyarsky district, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug; dialect terms also from the Salym, Vakh-Vasyugan and Surgut Khanty
вот вохты (Kazym); пэрхэттэх (Salym); пухлы (Vakh-Vasyugan); коркимох (Surgut)

Teleut herders' swung gudelki (Sheikin school)
Bekovo area, Kemerovo Oblast (Teleut homeland, south Siberia)

English folk bullroarer, Suffolk (Lovett collection, NMAH)
woozer

Baniwa bullroarers, Lower Rio Içana (NMAI 16/4242 and 16/4489)
Lower Rio Içana, Santana, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas

Nahukúá "Kleiner Blitz" bullroarer, coll. Karl von den Steinen (EM Berlin)
Upper Xingu (Steinen expeditions of 1884 and 1887-88)
"Kleiner Blitz" (main-catalog gloss, German: "little lightning")

Penobscot bullroarer, Old Town, Maine (Speck: NMAI specimen + APS drawing)

Tunumiit bullroarer, Tasiilaq (NMAI, ex-Nationalmuseet)

Sissano bullroarer, Aitape coast (Übersee-Museum Bremen, pre-1913)
Sissano villages, Aitape coast, West Sepik (former German New Guinea)

Enets posi / vyrvyr wind-calling whirler
Taimyr / lower Yenisei (forest and tundra Enets)
поси (forest) / вырвыр (tundra)
вращаемая гуделка (rotated hummer), Sheikin school

Nganasan biakhery wind howler
биахеры
вращаемая завывалка (rotated howler), Sheikin school

Sakha isiirer swung hummer
исиирэр (вар. эртйэр)
гуделка / вращаемый гудящий свободный аэрофон

Ukrainian furkalo garden roarer (Volyn)
фуркало / фуркалка (dim. фуркальце)

Bamana ritual bullroarers, wood and forged iron (Frobenius / Kunstkamera)
Segou region, middle Niger (eastern Bamana)

Kawajiri four-object perforated-axe group — Okhotsk Hokkaido, Initial Jomon
Okajima, Esashi Town (Okhotsk Subprefecture), Hokkaido; Kawajiri site, now Horobetsu Right-Bank Terrace site
有孔石斧
Initial Jōmon, middle phase; c. 8100–6000 ¹⁴C BP (class/site horizon)

Novgorod whirring laths, Troitsky and Nikitinsky excavations (13th-14th c.)
Novgorod the Great (Sophia and Trade sides)

Sakha kuurt / kyugyunei whirrer, Gurvich collection (Zhilinda)
күүрт, күүгүнэй

Amur master's bullroarer, Khabarovsk (У Nikolai Nikolaevich, 2005)
Amur peoples (master У Nikolai Nikolaevich, Khabarovsk)

Aranda churinga, Spencer collection (Kunstkamera, 1908)
Central Australia (Aranda / Arrernte country)
tjurunga (чуринга)
чуринга — знак предков ('a sign of the ancestors')

Amur Evenki wind-summoning rotated aerophone
Amur basin (Priamurye), Russian Far East

Dugum Dani aneivu-aneivu toy bullroarer
Grand Valley of the Balim River, West New Guinea / West Irian
aneivu-aneivu

Bush Kaliai Varku bullroarer tambaran
Kaliai bush, Kove/Kaliai Rural LLG, West New Britain
Varku

Kubka (Kubkin) Upper Sepik bullroarer, Yale Peabody
Kubka (museum spelling: Kubkin) / Upper Sepik
East Sepik / Leonard Schultze (Walio) River / Kubka vicinity

Dividing Point, Alaska antler bullroarer, Yale Peabody
Alaska / Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area / Dividing Point

Kassena nàvúni bullroarer cluster, MKB
Koumbili, Pô subdivision, southern Burkina Faso
nàvúni

Yoruba Mitro, Benin bullroarer cluster, MKB

Evaora bullroarer charm, Panaroa River / Port Romilly
Panaroa (Ivey) River / Port Romilly, Gulf Province

Milingimbi Island bullroarer and handle, NMNH E387549
Milingimbi Island (Yurruwi), Crocodile Islands, Northern Territory

Saline Valley Shoshoni wooden bullroarer
wumuitui

Elko and Battle Mountain Shoshoni wind bullroarer
Elko and Battle Mountain, Humboldt River, Nevada

Northern Saulteaux hunting-wind bullroarer

Saint-Hippolyte childhood rhombe

Fort McDowell Yavapai medicine and toy bullroarers
Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community (now Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation)
Fort McDowell Reservation / lower Verde River, Maricopa County, Arizona
ual ual ii'g agual

Itajui Folia das Almas berra-boi
Itajui / Vale da Gurita, Delfinopolis, Minas Gerais
berra-boi

Miau Baru Kayan buluq laluq possible wind bullroarer
Miau Baru, Kongbeng, East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan
buluq laluq

Wainwright Inupiaq Imigluktaaq bullroarer
Imigluktaaq

Mesa Verde Ruin 14 bone bullroarer

Aua Island Schwirrholz toy bullroarer

Mekeo tabu-proclamation bull-roarer (Q.M. N.G. 18639)

Kissziget (Goecsej) whip-mounted zugattyu
Kissziget, Zala county (Goecsej Hungarian folk)
bugato / buengik (Goenczi); zugattyu (museum term)

Kara Khoja (Turfan) yongpuldurpic
Kara Khoja (Qara Chodscha / Gaochang), Turfan oasis, Xinjiang
yongpuldurpic

Gban (Gagou) wroum wroum bird-scarer
wroum wroum

Nivala suhistuspuu herding bull-roarer (K7145:6)
Finnish (Savonian-settled Ostrobothnia), Sarjankylä village, Nivala
suhistuspuu

Forest Finn seäntikku bull-roarer toy (SU5161:130)
Värmland–Hedmark Finnskogen (Forest Finn settlement belt)
seäntikku
suhistuspuu; seäntikku (tilapäinen nimitys — provisional name)

Netsilik brummer (bull-roarer), Amundsen Gjøa expedition (UEM16245)
King William Island (Qikiqtaq) / Netsilingmiut territory, Kitikmeot, Nunavut

Ticuna bull-roarer (mare), girls’ puberty mask-dance, Nimuendajú 1929 (SMVK 1930.40.0129)
Upper Solimões, Amazonas (between Tabatinga and São Paulo de Olivença)
mare

Orang Darat bull-roarer (kitiran), Manggar, Belitung (SMVK 1935.16.0040)
kitiran

Vrbnik grmavica-germjavica bull-roarer, Krk Island (Et 9765a-e)
grmavica / grmjavica / germjavica; zujača

Pulo Anna (Pur) zorien bullroarer
Southwest Islands / Pulo Anna (Pur), Sonsorol State
zorien

Ngiemboon mandelevum nkye bullroarer, Bamougong
West Region / Bamboutos / Bamougong (Batcham district)
màndelevûm nkyɛ̀

Dan rhombe sound-mask bullroarer, Man / Tonkpi
Dan / western Cote d'Ivoire and northeastern Liberia
Dan country (western Cote d'Ivoire / northeastern Liberia)

Hawaiian O-e-o-e wooden toy bullroarer
Native Hawaiian / Hawaiian Islands general
O-e-o-e

Slovak Malaczka-area toy Schwirrholz
West slope of the Little Carpathians around Malaczka (now Malacky)

Luvale ndumbamwelela Mukanda bullroarer, Solochi Village
Solochi Village, Chavuma / former Zambezi District, North-Western Province
ndumbamwelela

Ndembu ndumba mwila Mukanda bullroarer, Wukengi / Nyaluhana vicinage
Ndembu / Wukengi Farm / Nyaluhana vicinage
Wukengi Farm / Nyaluhana vicinage, Mwinilunga District, North-Western Province
ndumba mwila

Krause 1888 Schwirrholz, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin VI 10342 — the first figured New Guinea bull-roarer
Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (German New Guinea), locality unrecorded

Trumai kuth / huri huri bullroarer, Upper Xingu
kuth; uríuri (shared with Kamayurá); huri huri

Wanjika / Unjika highland toy bullroarer
Unjika highland / historic Rukwa district

Warumungu Tennant Creek murtu-murtu initiation bullroarer
murtu-murtu

Mistretta Sicily lapuni Holy Week bullroarer
lapuni

Carballedo Lugo zoadeira bullroarer
zoadeira / zoa / rombeta

Bontoc wedwed violent-death bullroarer
wedwed

Lambumbu and Uerik Malekula sacred bullroarer
nangamgar nrlalinge (Uerik)

Porangaba São Paulo vumvum berra-boi
vumvum / berra-boi

Mogador / Essaouira ferfâra bullroarer
ferfâra

Mboum Ngan-Ha circumcision rhombe
Djerr / Sirr / Dirr (wider Mbum)

Esztelnek Székely surrógtató bullroarer
surrógtató / berregtető

Gan sᴐrᴐ initiation bullroarer
Southwest Burkina Faso / Loropeni Department
sᴐrᴐ

São Manuel berra-boi
Recomendação das Almas group of São Manuel
berra-boi

Morrinhos / rural Palmito berra-boi
Reza Pr'as Almas groups of Morrinhos / Palmito
berra-boi

Ngbaka minagende (Gemena) vukuma
Vukuma

Cavineño Río Beni bullroarer toy

Amvam Fang evuntere bullroarer
evuntere

Rio das Mortes São João del-Rei MG berra-boi
Rio das Mortes district, São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais

Santo Antônio da Alegria São Paulo berra-boi

Munge Kikuyu bullroarer
Historic Munge district / likely Mutira, Kirinyaga
ke-hu-ru-ta

Khizabarui Khizami bullroarer

Slovenia brnivka bullroarer
Slovenia (maker and locality not recorded)
brnivka

Mopan Maya San Antonio toy bullroarer

Arad Maros zúgattyú bullroarer
zúgattyú

Itapecerica MG Week of Sorrows berra-boi
Sociedade Renasceriana of Itapecerica / GRERTACUF

Euahlayi Narran River Gayandi / Gurraymi Boorah bullroarer
Narran River / north-western New South Wales
Gayandi / Gurraymi; garrarana (regional Yuwaalaraay)

Modern Greek vouga bullroarer
Greece; country-wide folk-instrument attestation, locality unrecorded
Βούγκα / Vouga

Esan Alimin-Otor land-spirit bullroarer
Alimin-Otor

Bini Oloawon Ovia / Ovato bullroarer
Oloawon Ovia / Oloawon Ovato / Usaokwhaiyi / Elimidu

Huitoto Peruvian Amazon feather bullroarer
pluma zumbadora

Piaroa / Wothuja Imu-chuwo Warime bullroarer
Imu-chuwo

Central Inuit Chesterfield Inlet caribou-bone bullroarer CMH IV-C-1402

Sakizaya berber bullroarer, Guo Fu Community
berber / ber ber
bullroarer; distinct from same-named whirring disc

Mbyá-Guaraní waimí kerambú bamboo bullroarer, Misiones
waimí kerambú
palo zumbador; first of two toys called waimí kerambú

Vilela kiré ajlipié bullroarer, eastern Chaco
kiré ajlipié

Kwele / Bakwele namiqwott funeral bullroarer, Makokou
namiqwott
bull-roarer; planchette tournant autour d'une corde

Sawia bamboo bullroarer, Arso-Keerom borderland (Museum Nasional 15928)
Sawia / Arso-Tami River / Keerom borderland

Desana nurá-mee bullroarer, Vaupés
Vaupés / upper Rio Negro cultural region
nurá-mee

Wajãpi ancestral rhombe, Oyapock-Amapá range

Aimei Kiwai kaiaimuru bullroarer
Aimei village / northeastern Kiwai (Gibaio dialect)
Kaiaimuru

Bulgarian bramkalo bullroarer
бръмкало (bramkalo)

Southern Lisu forest-spirit bullroarer, northern Thailand
Northern Thailand / eastern Shan Southern Lisu dialect range
fũ lù yũ du
fũ lù (forest spirit); fũ lù yũ du (bull-roarer)

Kuyu / Kouyou Ngwé bullroarer, Kouyougandza
Ngwé

Muyu mulin bullroarer, Upper Kao-Digul
Muyu / Upper Kao-Digul / historic Netherlands New Guinea
mulin / áyerèt / áyeèt

Surprise Valley Paiute wind bullroarer
Surprise Valley, northeastern California and Warner Valley, Oregon
kwi'mo

Erbil Turkmen warwara bullroarer
warwara / wighwagha / gafgafa

Kenyah-Badang kidiu paired bullroarer
Upper Rejang River / Belaga District, Sarawak
kidiu

Nungon first-harvest bullroarer, Uruwa valley
Uruwa River valley / Kabwum District, Morobe Province

Swiss firlifurli / Schnurre, Ticino name
Schnurre / fiferlet / firlifurli

Atshuana pumbuentzade, Morona Santiago
pumbuentzade

Estonian vuristi / vuripuu, Karja parish
vuristi / vuripuu / suristuspuu

Cubeo stone bullroarer, Cuduyari River

Bakundu Eboku bull-roarer
Southwest Cameroon / Meme Division (Bakundu)
Eboku

Lower Ijaw Noin-nama bull-roarer
Central Niger Delta / Ijo (Ijaw) country

Waika alabaco, Mahekodotedi
Upper Orinoco / Mahekodotedi (El Platanal)
alabaco

Tipra (Tripuri) Ker-puja bhemra bullroarer
Former Tripura State / Tripura ritual sphere
bhemra / bhamra

Grass Country Sepik-Keram bullroarer Yale Peabody
Grass Country regional provenance (community unrecorded)
Grass Country between the Sepik and Keram rivers, East Sepik

Tiriyó museum bullroarer Paru de Oeste-Marapi
Paru de Oeste-Marapi basin, Tumucumaque Indigenous Park, Pará

Mafa millet-stalk Schwirrholz Soulédé

Atsugewi Hat Creek children's bullroarer

Shipibo-Conibo palo zumbador Yarinacocha

Chapra / Shapra palo zumbador Morona basin
Pushaga-Sicuanga tributaries of the Morona River

Nomatsigenga palo zumbador Pangoa
Pangoa and Sonomoro valleys, Satipo, Junin (Selva Central montana)

Mombum / Komolom Island bullroarer
Komolom Island (south of Yos Sudarso / Kolepom)

Baramura ceremonial bullroarer

Kaibab Southern Paiute-attributed bullroarer whirrers
Arizona Strip / Kaibab Indian Reservation, northern Arizona
naiyaratinömpö

Kubu ceremonial bullroarer

Victoria River black wooden bullroarer

Ooldea native-camp bullroarer

Lund Helgonabacken bone vinare
vinare

Xipaya warī warī sámį, Curuá River
warī warī sámį

Hurricane Deck cave bullroarers (Santa Barbara County)
Hurricane Deck cave region, San Rafael Mountains (Chumash traditional territory)
California / Santa Barbara County / Hurricane Deck

Karo Batak dengeng-dengeng children's toy
dengeng-dengeng

Wéhnayey jwim-jwim children's whirring toy
Río Pilcomayo, Provincia Gran Chaco, Tarija
jwim-jwim / juimjuim

Yandruwandha thuburu exile-signal bullroarer
Innamincka / Cooper Creek / northeastern South Australia
thuburu

Kariyarra (Kariera) banangari bullroarers
banangari

Ngarluma (Ngaluma) banangari bullroarer
Pilbara coast between Maitland and Sherlock rivers
banangari

Calga Daramulan thundering-voice bullroarer
Calga Aboriginal Cultural Landscape / Peats Ridge songline / Central Coast

Jabunbarra Jirrbal and Girramay bibu bullroarer
bibu

Sinkyone wind-control bullroarer
South Fork Eel River / Bull Creek / Garberville region

Badimaya nganirri bullroarer
Murchison / Lake Moore / Ninghan Station / Paynes Find
nganirri

Wangkangurru inchitcha bullroarer
inchitcha

Pueblo del Arroyo elk-bone bullroarer
Ancestral Puebloan / Chacoan Pueblo del Arroyo
Pueblo del Arroyo / Chaco Canyon / undated within site

Birdhawal Turndun initiation bullroarer
Northeast Gippsland / Cann River / Victoria-New South Wales border
Turndun

Wiluna initiation bullroarer

Kookynie district initiation bullroarer
Kookynie district / Goldfields-Esperance, Western Australia

Dogon Songo veni bullroarer
Songo / Bandiagara escarpment / Mopti region / French Sudan
Veni

Yoruba Abomey eke bullroarer
Abomey region / Zou Department / Dahomey
Eke

Garoua circumcision bullroarer
Garoua site; catalog culture Kirdi and Peul, unresolved
Garoua / Bénoué Department / Northern Cameroon

Kaimari Island Purari spirit-voice bullroarer
Kaimari Island / Port Romilly / Gulf Province

Kanganamun Iatmul initiation bullroarer

Gugu Yalanji-area jinna-juronggor wind charm
Butcher's Hill / Boggy Creek Reserve southwest of Cooktown
jinna-juronggor

Fitzroy River painted wood bullroarer

Gupapuyngu Daygurrgurr burala
burala

Château-Chervix Rofla bullroarer photograph
Rofla

Ashdown Forest English Hummer bullroarer
Hummer

St Paul's Parish Norwich Buzzer bullroarers
Buzzer

Chichester Whizzing blade bullroarer pair
Whizzing blade

Bakango / Bafwaguda maduali bullroarer
Asunguda-Apare river district / Ituri Forest near Avakubi
maduali

Potter Valley Pomo Thunder Ceremony bullroarer
Potter Valley / Mendocino County, California
English with Northern Pomo ceremonial terms

Zia Pueblo haomomo bullroarer
Zia Pueblo / Sandoval County / New Mexico
háomomo

Hunjara / Koko wowow initiation bullroarer
wowow

Bungyarlee and Parkungi moola-uncka initiation bullroarer
Momba Station / Wilcannia / northern River Darling
moola-uncka

Stolzenau childhood Schwirrholz
Stolzenau / Kingdom of Hanover / modern Lower Saxony

Ratzebuhr Schwirrholz survival
Children or users of Ratzebuhr otherwise unrecorded
Ratzebuhr / Kreis Neustettin / Hinterpommern / modern Okonek

Gützlaffshagen children's Schwirrholz
Gut Gutzlafshagen / modern Gutzlaffshagen near Garz / Rugen

Bedford whizzing-stick bullroarer
Whizzing stick / buzzer

Needingworth Roaring bull bullroarer
Roaring bull

St Ives bullroarer and Buzzer pair
Bull roarer / Buzzer

Nottingham notched bullroarer

Clanfield serrated bullroarer

Mamu Gulngay wungumali bullroarer
Waribarra Mamu / Dulgubarra Mamu / Gulŋay
Johnstone River / lower Tully-Murray rainforest / North Queensland
wungumali

Potaruwutj mimikur talking-tree bullroarer
Tatiara / Naracoorte-Bordertown district / South Australia
mimikur

Kisgo Manzanal bird-call zumbador
Manzanal / Resguardo Indigena de Kisgo / Silvia / Cauca

Northern Ute FMNH 60974 bullroarer

Cittanova Novigrad la fionda bullroarer
la fionda

Lake Arsa herders livestock-driving bullroarer
Shepherds and herders around Lake Arsa; people unrecorded
Lake Arsa / modern Cepicko polje below Ucka / Istria

Kouroumba Yoro atongu dry-season bullroarer
atongu

Fali Bao Tinguelin Tadogbel funeral and initiation bullroarer
Bao / Tinguelin / Benoue / northern Cameroon
Tadogbel

Tschamba Samba Leko Langa circumcision bullroarer
Tchamba / Beka / Faro Department / North Region
Langa

Dakka Sama Mum Langa ancestral-voice bullroarer
Sugu / Tsugu / Ganye LGA / Adamawa State
Langa

Bokko Voko Longto Uonatonajo ancestor-voice bullroarer
Voko / Gormaaya / Poli / Faro Department / North Region
Uonatonajo / Wonatonajo

Sepa communal bullroarer
Sepa village / Bogia District / Madang Province

Dagoi Dagu bullroarer
Dagoi / Dagu / Bogia District / Madang Province

Bola Bakovi tuvura bullroarer
Willaumez / Talasea Peninsula / West New Britain / New Pommern
tuvura

Burji Omisso Furissa bullroarer
Furissa

Gato Kusume field bird-scarer bullroarer
Kusume (Kusuma / Kusumi; historically Gato)

Gedeo Darassa emimissa restricted bullroarer
emimissa

Kissi initiation and ancestor-voice bullroarer

Otterbourne copper bullroarer

Palimbei monumental Iatmul bullroarer
Middle Sepik / Palimbei (historic catalog: Palimbai II)

Balese (Kalimoholo) pahudjuhudju bullroarer
Kilo-Geti goldfields district / Ituri Forest, Belgian Congo
pahudjuhudju

Akamba (Ukamba) boy's bullroarer

Chokwe (Tsokwe) ndumbamwela bullroarer
ndumbamwela

Torzsa (Savino Selo) zúgó / Windbrummer
Torzsa (today Savino Selo), Danube Swabian German villagers
Bácska (Bács-Bodrog county), Kingdom of Hungary
zúgó (Hajnal's Hungarian caption); Windbrummer (local Danube Swabian/German term, per Tolnai 1920:114)

Hajdúszoboszló board zúgattyú
zúgattyú (Fekete's Hajdúszoboszló term); regional synonyms búgató (Csallóköz), búgattyú (Alföld/Great Plain), bungató (Balaton), zungatyú (Heves), per Tolnai 1920

San Marcos ronrón de tablita
ronrón (de tablita)

Ickleton Cambridgeshire Buzzer bullroarer
Buzzer

Hemsby Norfolk Buzzer bullroarer
Buzzer

Woodbastwick Norfolk bullroarer

Tanga tangalop bullroarer size grades
Tanga Islands (Boang, Malendok, Lif, Tefa) / New Ireland Province / former German New Guinea
tangalop (common term); tomlulur (small); burrarumarum (large, swung on a bamboo pole); tom-mis-mis (largest)

Yir-Yoront yoq-par-muw sacred-board bullroarer
Lower Mitchell River / Kowanyama (Mitchell River Mission), Cape York Peninsula
yoq-par-muw

Twana cedar-blade bullroarer
Twana (Skokomish and related Hood Canal bands)
Hood Canal / Skokomish River, Puget Sound region, Washington

Oas San healer's bullroarer, Omaheke
Oas farm / Omaheke sandveld / Kalahari, German South-West Africa

Bulu Zauberholz bullroarer, Sangmelima
Lobo River / Sangmelima / South Region, former German Kamerun

Pass Cahuilla assembly bullroarer (Palm Springs)
Pass Cahuilla (Kauisiktum clan), Palm Springs
Palm Springs / Coachella Valley, Southern California

Desert Cahuilla assembly bullroarer (Tuva)
Desert Cahuilla (Wontcaktamyahwic clan), Tuva / Agua Dulce (Oasis)
Coachella Valley / Salton Sink, Southern California

Deep Creek Goshute toy bullroarer
Deep Creek Valley / Ibapah, western Utah, edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert

Moanunts Ute wind-making bullroarer
Salina Canyon / upper Sevier valley, central Utah
niã'painöpö

Timpanogots Ute horn-bladed bullroarer
Utah Lake shores and Wasatch canyons, Utah
nia'monöpö
Bull-roarer: of mt. sheep horn; of rawhide

Pahvant Ute toy bullroarer
Lower Sevier River and Sevier Lake desert / Kanosh, Utah
muyaratinumpö

Taviwatsiu Ute rawhide bullroarer
Front Range near Denver, Colorado (band removed to the Uintah Reservation, 1880)
nia'monöpö

Mowataviwatsiu Ute wind-stopping bullroarer
munu'nunöpö

Shivwits Southern Paiute bullroarer
Shivwits Plateau, Arizona Strip, northwestern Arizona
nanemotö

San Juan Southern Paiute wind-stopping bullroarer
Navajo Mountain country, northern Arizona / southern Utah
naiyaratinömpö

Eastern Achomawi shamans' bone bullroarer
West's Valley and Alturas, upper Pit River country, northeastern California

Hayfork Wintu storm-wind bullroarer
Hayfork Valley, Trinity County, northwestern California

Eastern White Mountain Apache gan-dance bullroarer
White River and Fort Apache country, east-central Arizona

Cibecue Apache public bullroarer

Wadatika wind-making bullroarer
Harney Valley and Malheur Lake, southeastern Oregon
wimo'to

Departure Bay whalebone bullroarer (DhRx-16:1166)
Departure Bay shellmidden DhRx-16, Snuneymuxw (Island Halkomelem Coast Salish) territory, Nanaimo
Departure Bay, Nanaimo, east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Lithuanian brūklys herders' bullroarer
brūklys

Duxford Cambridgeshire serrated bullroarer

Middenbeemster Keyserkerk bone snorrebot
Middenbeemster, Keyserkerk cemetery (charnel pit, feature 114)
snorrebot

Utrecht Wittevrouwenstraat rib snorrebot pair
Utrecht, Wittevrouwenstraat 8-10 (cesspit 2O and drainage system 3U)
snorrebot
Two objects: before c. 1500; 1640–1914 CE

East Derbyshire bummer bullroarer
bummer / buzzer

Balham boy-made bullroarer

Mala Triglavca bone fish brnivka

Riparo Gaban bone fish plaque

Armati bark spirit-warning bullroarer
Noord-Nieuw-Guinea (Dutch New Guinea), Sarmi hinterland

Witu Islands circumcision-spirit bullroarer
French Islands (Französische Inseln), German New Guinea; now the Vitu / Witu Islands, West New Britain Province

Awarai Rum Jungle elder-restricted bullroarer making
Rum Jungle to Brocks Creek, Northern Territory

Wulwulam Mary River discarded initiation bullroarers
Mary River headwaters / Pine Creek, Northern Territory

Nanggumiri Karwadi All-Mother cult transmission
Flora River / central Daly River, Northern Territory
Karwadi

Gudanji McArthur River snake-totem churinga bullroarer
McArthur River Station, Gulf country, Northern Territory

Paroo-Warrego-Mungalella young-men-making bull-roarer
Upper Paroo-Warrego and Mungalella Creek tribes (incl. Peechera)
Upper Paroo and Warrego Rivers / Mungalella (Mungallala) Creek, south-west Queensland

Ngalakan (Nullakun) Kunapippi bullroarer
Roper River / southern Arnhem Land (Ngalakan country)
kunapippi

Jangman (Yungman) Purdagiair bullroarer
Elsey / Roper River headwaters (Jangman country)
Purdagiair

Western Cape York pipe-ra-chy initiation bullroarer
Tjungundji (Mathews's Joonkoonjee) and neighbouring western Cape York tribes
Western Cape York Peninsula / Batavia (Wenlock) River
pipe-ra-chy

Tati Tati (Ta-ta-thi) Kalk bullroarer name
Murray River below the Murrumbidgee junction (Tati Tati country)
Kalk

Tewkesbury whizzing stick bullroarer
Whizzing stick

Bristol carved bullroarer

Villefranche-de-Lauragais fish-tailed rhombe

Daly Waters concentric-circle bullroarer

Mandobo tenotkok bullroarer (Wakeriop)
Wakeriop (modern Kampung Maju, Arimop District), between the Digul and Kao rivers, Boven Digoel, South Papua / historic Netherlands New Guinea
tenotkok; Murinop (when sounding)

Burum-Mindik esöŋ bullroarer
Burum and Mindik valleys, inland southern Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province
esöŋ (cult, spirit, and bullroarer; Siawari asa); köwawöŋ / muwum-muwum

Komnzo frfr and ngofongofo bullroarers, Rouku
Rouku village, Morehead district, Western Province (Trans-Fly)
frfr (children's coconut-leaf toy); ŋofoŋofo (wooden, formerly secret)

Mangamba bark-cord bullroarer, Abo country
Mangamba / Abo country; ethnic attribution unrecorded
Abo country north of the Mungo River / German Kamerun

Guaraŝug'wä ivirapähĩm̃'ne bullroarer, Santa Anita
Guaraŝug'wä (exonym Pauserna), Santa Anita village
Campo Grande / Suvivuhu, northern Velasco Province, Santa Cruz Department
ivirapähĩm̃'ne

Johannesburg sandstorm bullroarer

Cēsis Castle rib rūcamkauliņi
Cēsis Castle (moat, western slope, north tower)
rūcamkauliņš

Riga Alksnāja Street rib blade

Senbarei (Onua) temigh wump
temigh wump

Naman circumcision bullroarers (Lengaleng)

Big Nambas bullroarer (Deacon field note)

Friulian plain el tuto bullroarer
Boys of the Friulian plain (Aquileia, Ronchi, Cervignano)
el tuto
Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names

Trieste la striga bullroarer
Boys of Trieste (Rozzol-Settefontane and other districts)
la striga
Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names

Koper el volo bullroarer
el volo
Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names

Piran rullo bullroarer
rullo

Porec coa de la cagnea bullroarer
Children of Parenzo (Porec); also Villanova di Parenzo
coa de la cagnea
coa de la cagnea; cord 'el spago sforzin'; handgrip 'la manetola'

Rovinj la bus de la viecia bullroarer
la bus de la viecia

Vodnjan la sfronda bullroarer
Boys of Dignano (Vodnjan); Croatian villages of the Rovezia
la sfronda

Buje boyhood bullroarer (Vigini reconstruction)
Boys of the Buie (Buje) countryside, Istrian Carso

Postojna bullroarer
Boys of Postumia (Postojna) and the nearby countryside

Gungganyji Cape Grafton roarer
Gungganyji (Gunggandji), Cape Grafton / Jilliburri, Yarrabah peninsula
Cape Grafton / Jilliburri, North Queensland

Kalgoorlie-acquired incised bullroarer (BM Oc1953,15.1)
Unrecorded Aboriginal makers; acquired at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

San José Xilatzen bullroarer (Quai Branly 71.1938.164.352)
San José Xilatzén, Tanlajás municipality, Huasteca, San Luis Potosí (no people recorded)

Capitan Grande Kumeyaay bullroarer (1908)
Capitan Grande Kumeyaay (Diegueño), San Diego River canyon, San Diego County

Clavering Island Site D bullroarer (NMAI 17/9591)
Probably Tunumiit (attributed), Site D, Clavering Island, Northeast Greenland

Pelly Bay Netsilingmiut bullroarer (CMH IV-C-3299)
Netsilingmiut, Pelly Bay / Kugaaruk, Nunavut
imiklutAQ

Birnirk site baleen bull-roarers (Ford 1959)
Birnirk culture (ancestral Iñupiat), Piġniq mounds, Chukchi Sea coast
Piġniq (Birnirk site), near Utqiaġvik, Alaska

Kiowa bullroarer word (Harrington 1928)
gyǹ-bou-pọu-gyʜ-gɑ

Tilburg-Kraaiven zoemsteen (Late Mesolithic candidate)
zoemsteen
zoemsteen (Dutch popular name); published as 'bullroarer'

Gadebusch Schwirrplättchen (decorated bone plate)
Schwirrplättchen

Mare (Nengone) rhombe attestation

Lagoa das Oncas ceramic zumbidor (MPEG 2011)
Lagoa das Oncas, Upper Xingu (culture not identified)
zumbidor

Bunu village Schwirrholz (MARKK 4497 I)
Dorf Bunu, Morobe Province (no people recorded)

Upper Illasi valley surla a man
Mountain folk of the upper Illasi valley, Verona
surla a man

Giugliano fru-fru bullroarer
fru-fru

Poffabro rombo (spatola)
spatola

Petriolo svendola
svendola

Vallebona (Macerata) vendola
vendola

Sora / Ciociaria je mescone
je mescone

Sant'Andrea Ionio Holy Week bullroarer

Marzi whip-handled bullroarer

Gavoi burriburri (frusciu)
burriburri

Portole (Oprtalj) rombo

Copper Inuit imilguptak (Jenness / CMH IV-D-462)
imilguptak

Shipaulovi Hopi tovolpi (KHM Oslo UEM13727)
tovolpi

Belgian planchette ronflante (MIM 2295)
Belgium, locality unrecorded — MIM Brussels inv. 2295
planchette ronflante

Madla snorlebein (Norsk Folkemuseum NF.1964-0080)
Madla, Stavanger, Rogaland — maker Tormod Ropeid of Hafrsfjord
snorlebein

Bucesti trench bullroarer, July 1917
Romanian Army veterans, Bucesti village, behind the Siret line

Bzowica 'airplane game' bullroarer
Polish children of Bzowica (Bzovytsia), Zboriv district
Ternopil oblast / former Tarnopol voivodeship
zabawa w samolot

Anitkaya (Egret) firildak
firildak

Nyanga nyabungubungu circumcision bullroarer
nyabungubungu

Wapare ngurunguru (mshitu initiation)
Pare (Wapare), Pare Mountains, north-eastern Tanzania
ngurunguru

Mumbo cult bullroarers (Alego / Kavirondo)
Luo adherents of the Mumbo cult, Alego, western Kenya

Konde ifula rain bullroarer
ifula

Bembe Tembwe leopard-voice bullroarer
South Kivu (Fizi), mountains above Lake Tanganyika
Tembwe

Port Moresby Papan house emblem and child's bullroarer
Papan

Comanche yuane 'warm wind' medicine bullroarer
yuane (yu'anee)

Tlingit hunkaya'na toy bullroarer
hunkaya'na

Blackfoot children's bull roarer

Inland Yuki thunder-voice bullroarer
Inland (Northern) Yuki, southern Round Valley
aelamo'otom

Pattani baling rig (Pitt Rivers)
baling / berbaling

West Hudson Bay svingstikke (KHM Oslo)

Thai-Lue children's pipe-bundle bullroarer, Phaed
Phaed Village, Chiengkham District (then Chiengrai Province), North Thailand

Cairns bullroarer, 'Yedinjie (?)' (Edinburgh)

Wéménu kpe, the voice of Lo
kpe

Puyuma childhood bullroarer, Katratripulr

Umatilla bone bullroarer

Washoe Thunder-stick
Thunder-stick

South-West Australian woondah
South-West Australian Aboriginal people (Noongar country)
woondah

Elk Hills cemetery bullroarer fragment (CA-KER-116)
Elk Hills Cemetery, Buena Vista Lake (historic Yokuts village adjacent)
Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, California

Ales frúsciu reconstruction (Sardinia)
frúsciu / burriburri

Kranket (Grager) Djabobibi, Finsch 1888 corrected
Kranket/Grager Islanders (Bel/Gedaged-speaking area, affiliation kept qualified)
Kranket Island, Madang Lagoon (Astrolabe Bay, German New Guinea)
Djabobibi

Kwaplalim ochred bullroarer bundle PRM 1996.40.1

Milparinka Toon Doon PRM 1900.55.275
Corner Country, far north-western New South Wales
Toon Doon

Salmon Pueblo turquoise-and-hematite mosaic bullroarer
Salmon Pueblo / San Juan County, New Mexico / mixed Chacoan and San Juan context

Rustler Hills infant-burial bull-roarer
Hueco-phase cave dwellers, Rustler Hills sink-hole shelter
Trans-Pecos Texas (Rustler Hills, Culberson County)

Amaseno moscono, Monti Lepini
moscono

Serangwandu initiation bullroarer, Wosera

Auin ostrich-lure bullroarer, Kaukauveld
Auin (=Auen / Aokhoe) San, Gobabis-Epukiro
Gobabis-Epukiro / southern Kaukauveld, German South-West Africa