Hikoligjuaq anoreʒiut, crooked and notched

anoreʒiut

Source term: bull-roarer

Crooked, notched along both edges and thickest down its spine, this blade hung from an 80-centimetre sinew cord that ended in a loop for the hand. It comes from the Paallirmiut at Hikoligjuaq, Yathkyed Lake, inland caribou hunters of the Barren Grounds west of Hudson Bay, who called it anoreʒiut. It was a children's thing, kept with two other spinning toys: a caribou-skin buzz disk worked on a doubled cord, and a little wind-wheel on a handle.

The bull-roarer [anoreʒiut] is also known.

Kaj Birket-Smith, The Caribou Eskimos (1929), p. 290

Particulars

Object

Lanceolate blade, rather crooked, thickest along the middle line, notched edges; 29.5 × 4.7 cm, on an 80 cm sinew cord ending in a hand loop. National Museum of Denmark P 28:227.

Function

Children's toy.