The Bullroarer Atlas

No. DRUCKER1950-012

Gilutsa Tsimshian bullroarer

Canada · Lower Skeena and Port Simpson, northern British Columbia coast · North America · Northwest Coast

Play / practical

A Nuu-chah-nulth cedar bullroarer with a forked tip and a cord joining its narrow end to a straight stick handle below.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Nuu-chah-nulth cedar bullroarer with its stick handle. Image source

Source term: bullroarer

Among the Tsimshian of the lower Skeena and Port Simpson, children swung a handled slat: a blade on a cord fastened to a stick.

Particulars

Object
A slat swung on a cord fastened to a handle, the standard form all along this coast. Neither dimensions nor material recorded.
Function
A child's toy.

Source

Philip Drucker, Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast, University of California Anthropological Records 9(3) (Berkeley, 1950), pp. 161–163, 199, 268

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.