No. BATES1904-004
Ngarrooda and Yeemarree, little and long
Northampton magisterial district, north of Geraldton, Western Australia (Nhanda country)
Function not recorded
Ngarrooda; Yeemarree
Source term: small bullroarer; little bullroarer; long bullroarer
Ngarrooda: the small bullroarer. Yeemarree: the long bullroarer. Meetoo: circumcision knife. Dibbooroo: magic pearlshell.
Mundhongo, a Nunnagurdi man of Kunnalagunda and Arranooba in the Northampton district, named the bullroarer by its size: the little one was Ngarrooda, the long one Yeemarree. He set them among the things of men's ritual life, beside the circumcision knife, Meetoo, and the magic pearlshell, Dibbooroo. Northampton lies in the hills behind the coast north of Geraldton.
Particulars
- Object
- Bullroarers named by size: the small or little one Ngarrooda, the long one Yeemarree.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Daisy Bates, vocabulary questionnaire, Mundhongo, Northampton Magisterial District, Nunnagurdee people, NLA MS 365, folios 54/47–48 (Digital Daisy Bates)