The Bullroarer Atlas

ARCTIC-007 - museum specimen

Yup'ik (Nunakauyarmiut) / Toksook Bay, Nelson Island

United States - Alaska - Nelson Island, central Bering Sea coast (Yukon-Kuskokwim region) - North America - Arctic

Function not recorded

A single flat blade, notch-toothed along both edges, tapering to a point at one end and a small grip-stub at the other with no cord surviving —...
Representative image. A single flat blade, notch-toothed along both edges, tapering to a point at one end and a small grip-stub at the other with no cord surviving — an Arctic-region bull-roarer of the general kind. The Yup'ik instrument named Levlugtaq, collected at Toksook Bay on Nelson Island, is catalogued without a photograph. © The Trustees of the British Museum (E/Am1929-0412-54) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Image source

Levlugtaq

Source term: Bull Roarer

Central Alaskan Yup'ik name the Burke Museum gives as the object's own native name, paired directly with the English "Bull Roarer"; the Burke records native names this way for Alaska Native objects (the same page lists an Inupiaq bullroarer as "Imigluktaaq, Bull Roarer"). No translation or etymology is supplied for the word itself.

A Yup'ik bull roarer named Levlugtaq, from Toksook Bay (Nunakauyaq) on Nelson Island, the village of the Nunakauyarmiut on Alaska's central Bering Sea coast. It is held at the Burke Museum in Seattle, catalog 2005-77/3, where it entered as a gift from Eloy and Beatriz Apodaca. The catalog records the Yup'ik name and the place but nothing of the object's materials or its use.

Levlugtaq, Bull Roarer

Burke Museum Arts & Cultures Database, object 2005-77/3
Object
A Yup'ik bull roarer named Levlugtaq, catalogued at the Burke Museum as object 2005-77/3 under the culture "Yup'ik, Toksook Bay." The database entry gives the native name, the English object type, the culture, and the donor; it records no materials, dimensions, date, or use.
Function
Function not recorded.
Map confidence
high - Representative community anchor at Toksook Bay / Nunakauyaq, Nelson Island (60°31′50″N 165°06′12″W per Wikipedia), the named place of origin in the catalog record; not an exact findspot.
Source location
Catalog no. 2005-77/3

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