The Bullroarer Atlas

CJFN15-003 - secondary catalog

Antakirinya / Antikirinya / Antakarinja

North-west South Australia - Coober Pedy and Charlotte Waters region

Restricted

A Luritja bullroarer worked in red ochre, one end carved with a spiral, the rest banded with crossing wavy lines, and dark cord wound at the...
Representative image. A Luritja bullroarer worked in red ochre, one end carved with a spiral, the rest banded with crossing wavy lines, and dark cord wound at the opposite tip — shown for the general Aboriginal Australian type, not the Antakirinya piece Cormier and Jones describe. Wereldmuseum / NMVW (acc. TM-2693-39) Image source

Source term: bullroarer

Swung fast on its cord, the bullroarer speaks with the voice of ancestral beings — a sound reserved for initiated men and, across the Western Desert, kept from women and boys on pain of death. The Antakirinya hold the stony gibber country around Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta and Charlotte Waters, and belong to that Law; Cormier and Jones name them among the desert peoples whose male initiation turns on the roarer. The particular rite behind that naming has never been pinned to a single ethnographer's account, and the ceremony stays men's business, guarded from outsiders.

Object
Cormier/Jones list Antakirinya among Australian groups for which the bullroarer is integral to male initiation rituals; the cited primary source behind note 21 has not been recovered.
Function
Literature attestation for Antakirinya male-initiation bullroarer use from Cormier/Jones; primary-source recovery remains useful for detail and duplicate review.
Map confidence
low_medium - SA Museum Antakirinja public coordinate, 134deg0E x 27deg10S, used as a broad regional anchor only.
Source location
Cormier/Jones 2015 p. 93 and notes p. 163 via Google Books snippets

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