No. BARNETT1937-004
Tututni bull-roarer
United States · Lower Rogue River, Curry County, Oregon · North America · Northwest Coast
Play / practical Candidate only
Source term: bull-roarer (boy's plaything)
On the lower Rogue the bullroarer was a boy's plaything, free for any child to whirl. The contrast tells: children were forbidden to play with deer hooves — to print tracks with them meant the hunter would afterwards find only tracks — because deer-hoof rattles were this coast's ritual instrument. The roarer carried no such charge. Nobody stopped a boy from swinging it.
Particulars
- Object
- Not described; recorded only as a bull-roarer.
- Function
- A boy's plaything.
Source
Homer G. Barnett, 'Culture Element Distributions: VII, Oregon Coast,' University of California Anthropological Records 1:3 (Berkeley, 1937), p. 174, element 746 ('Bull-roarer (boy's plaything)')