No. EXH2026-009
Slavey (Dene)
Canada · Fort Nelson, British Columbia · North America · Subarctic
Play / practical
Source term: bullroarer (museum catalog)
A leaf-shaped wooden blade about a foot long, left unfinished, the work of a man named George Bain at Fort Nelson in the boreal northeast of British Columbia. It reached the Yale Peabody Museum in 1943, the same year John Honigmann did the fieldwork that became his ethnography of the Fort Nelson Slave. It is a toy, and no ritual use is recorded.
Particulars
- Object
- Unfinished wood bullroarer blank, leaf-shaped flat blade with tang, L. 13 in. (30.5 cm), made by George Bain; Yale Peabody YPM ANT 057335, accession YPM.05533 (1943).
- Function
- Catalogued as a toy. No ritual context recorded.
Source
Yale Peabody Museum, YPM ANT 057335: bullroarer, unfinished wood, toy, 13 in., made by George Bain, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Slave (Slavey)