No. AUSMAIN-014
Butchulla (Badtjala)
Australia · K'gari (Fraser Island) and adjacent Hervey Bay coast · Southeast Queensland
Restricted
Bon'da'ban
Bon'da'ban / Bundanaba / Bondaban: bullroarer; ceremonial noise maker, men only.
Butchulla men kept the bullroarer's roar to themselves. Their dictionaries record it as Bon'da'ban, a ceremonial noise-maker marked men only, a sound barred to the women and children of K'gari (Fraser Island). It belonged to the same closed men's ceremonial life as the bu'rul, the major man-making rite that outsiders learned to call a bora, in which initiated men led boys out of childhood.
Bullroarer (ceremonial noise maker, men only)
Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation, Butchulla Mini Dictionary V4 (2021), p. 7, entry Bon'da'ban
Particulars
- Object
- Butchulla bullroarer, described in the language dictionary as a ceremonial noise maker for men only.
- Function
- Ceremonial noise maker; the dictionary marks the bullroarer as men only.
Source
Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation, Butchulla Mini Dictionary V4 (2021)