The Bullroarer Atlas

DRUCKER1937-001 - ethnographic attestation

Pass Cahuilla (Kauisiktum clan), Palm Springs

United States - Palm Springs - Coachella Valley, Southern California - North America

Sacred / spirit

Pima Wihoewiketeke with painted slat, long cord, and separate handle.
Representative — not this record’s object. · Pima Wihoewiketeke with painted slat, long cord, and separate handle. · CC BY-SA 4.0 Image source

Source term: bull-roarer

The bullroarer at Palm Springs kept to ceremony: whirled to assemble the people, and for nothing else. So testified Francisco Potencio, ceremonial head — the net — of the Kauisiktum clan, whose village stood among the palm canyons below Mount San Jacinto. Kauisiktum memory ran deep in the land: a string of sacred feathers was said to have been left near Saboba long ago, during the clan's migration to Palm Springs.

Function
Ceremonial use only; whirled to assemble the people.
Map confidence
medium - Palm Springs (Agua Caliente hot-spring village), home of the Kauisiktum clan and the informant's own community per Drucker printed p. 5; not a documented sounding site.
Source location
printed pp. 5, 25; items 924, 926

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