BARNETT1937-003 - ethnographic attestation
Galice Creek (Taltushtuntede)
United States - Galice Creek, Rogue River, Josephine County, Oregon - North America - Northwest Coast
Play / practical
Source term: bull-roarer (boy's plaything)
At Galice Creek, up the Rogue River among people whose culture was steeped in that of the inland Takelma, the bullroarer was a boy's plaything. Takelma country runs toward the interior, where the roarer is thoroughly at home; if the instrument came to this coast from anywhere, it came down this river first. Galice memory itself was divided on it: one record has the toy, the other says there was never one.
- Object
- Not described; recorded only as a bull-roarer.
- Function
- A boy's plaything on one of the two Galice records; the other denied the instrument.
- Map confidence
- medium - Galice Creek, a tributary of the Rogue River, Josephine County -- territory anchor, not a findspot.
- Source location
- printed p. 174, element 746
- Toy / secular survival