The Bullroarer Atlas

No. DUNN1988-001

Badimaya nganirri bullroarer

Australia · Murchison · Lake Moore · Ninghan Station · Paynes Find

Function not recorded

Clement’s 1903 plate of incised bullroarers and boards from north-western Australia.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Clement’s 1903 plate of bullroarers and boards from north-western Australia. Public domain · Image source

nganirri

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

Particulars

Object
Form, material, dimensions, and cord construction are not recorded.
Function
Function not recorded.

Source

Leone Dunn, Badimaya, a Western Australian Language (1988), p. 25, after Wilfrid Douglas 1981, pp. 246-261

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