The Bullroarer Atlas

No. ARCTIC-007

Toksook Bay levlugtaq

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

Function not recorded

Yup’ik levlugtaq from Toksook Bay: a long pale wooden handle above a shorter flat wooden blade, joined by a looped cord.
Plate I. Yup’ik levlugtaq from Toksook Bay, Burke Museum 2005-77/3. Image source

Levlugtaq

Source term: Bull Roarer

Levlugtaq: Yup'ik name for the bullroarer; levlugtaq / levlugtaaq imitates its sound (Jacobson 2012, p. 377; Kuskokwim dialect).

Levlugtaq, the Yup'ik name for this Toksook Bay bullroarer, imitates its own sound. The blade hangs on a single cord from a long wooden handle. Toksook Bay, Nunakauyaq, sits on the Bering Sea shore of Nelson Island; Eloy and Beatriz Apodaca gave the instrument to the Burke Museum.

Levlugtaq, Bull Roarer

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, 2005-77/3

Particulars

Object
A wooden blade attached by a single cord to a long wooden handle; Burke Museum catalog 2005-77/3, Toksook Bay.
Function
Not recorded.

Sources

  1. Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, 2005-77/3, “Levlugtaq, Bull Roarer,” Toksook Bay, Alaska; gift of Eloy and Beatriz Apodaca. View · archived
  2. Steven A. Jacobson, Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary, 2nd ed. (2012), p. 377. View · archived

Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.