JSTEWARD1941-004 - primary ethnography
Beatty Shoshoni (S-Bty)
United States - Beatty, Oasis Valley, Nye County, Nevada - North America - Great Basin
Function not recorded
Source term: Bull-roarer
At Beatty, where the Amargosa surfaces in the Oasis Valley, the bullroarer was a wooden slat whirled on a cord, and nothing more of it was recorded. It sits in a line of valleys — Death Valley below, Lida to the west — that gave the instrument to children and denied it any power over the weather.
- Object
- Not described; the Great Basin form is a flat wooden slat swung on a cord from a short handle stick.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - Beatty, Oasis Valley, Nye County, Nevada. Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 307, element 1870 (column Sb); informant p. 214