The Bullroarer Atlas

DUNN1988-001 - lexical attestation

Badimaya

Australia - Murchison - Lake Moore - Ninghan Station - Paynes Find - Oceania - Sahul

Function not recorded

Representative—not this record’s object: Gascoyne bullroarer, shown as a regional stand-in; no image of this record’s own object is available...
Representative—not this record’s object: Gascoyne bullroarer, shown as a regional stand-in; no image of this record’s own object is available yet. W. D. Hambly, Primitive Hunters of Australia (Field Museum of Natural History, 1936), plate I, fig. 10 Public domain Image source
Western Australia, Giglioli 1886. The entire historical page is shown; object 3 is handwritten Mooryumkarr, probably the Gascoyne-mouth...
Western Australia, Giglioli 1886. The entire historical page is shown; object 3 is handwritten Mooryumkarr, probably the Gascoyne-mouth spirit-chaser later described by Pettazzoni. Enrico H. Giglioli, Western Australian objects at the Colonial Exhibition, London (1886) Public domain Image source

nganirri Badimaya / English

Source term: bullroarer

nganirri: Badimaya word glossed bullroarer; no literal lexical analysis supplied

By the late twentieth century, Badimaya speakers around Lake Moore, Ninghan Station and Paynes Find were worried that their language was disappearing. Among the words they saved was nganirri: the bullroarer.

nganirri bullroarer

Dunn 1988:25
Object
Form, material, dimensions, and cord construction are not recorded.
Function
Function not recorded.
Map confidence
medium - Paynes Find broad anchor within the Lake Moore-Ninghan Station-Paynes Find Badimaya area; not an attested object or performance site.
Source location
printed p. 25; PDF p. 7

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