No. BARNETT1937-005
Sixes River (Kwatami) bull-roarer
United States · Sixes River · Port Orford, Curry County, Oregon · North America · Northwest Coast
Play / practical
Source term: bull-roarer (boy's plaything)
Among the Kwatami of the Sixes River the bullroarer was a boy's plaything. Little more can be said of a people of whom little more is known: their recorded geography amounts to three town names — sukwe:me at the river mouth, kwatai:me just north of it, kusuilme — and no ceremony of theirs was ever described. The whirled slat belonged to boys.
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)')