No. DRUCKER1950-013
Gitxsan bullroarer
Canada · Kispiox, upper Skeena River, British Columbia · North America · Northwest Coast
Play / practical
Source term: bullroarer
Kispiox lies far up the Skeena, a long way from salt water, yet the Gitxsan there swung the same handled slat found along the coast. Here too it was a toy, though Gitxsan life had kept its old shape far better than among the other Tsimshian-speaking peoples Drucker visited.
Particulars
- Object
- A wooden 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