No. DRUCKER1950-014
Massett Haida bullroarer
Canada · Massett, Graham Island, Haida Gwaii · North America · Northwest Coast
Play / practical
Source term: bullroarer
At Massett on Graham Island, at the northern edge of Haida Gwaii, the bullroarer was a handled slat and a child’s toy; across Dixon Entrance, Drucker’s two Tlingit communities had none. Farther south on Haida Gwaii at Skedans, it sounded behind a decorated screen at potlatches.
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