No. JSTEWARD1941-013
Snake River Shoshoni wind bullroarer
United States · Snake River, southern Idaho · North America · Great Basin
Weather / fertility magic
Source term: Bull-roarer
On the Snake River the bullroarer was swung to make the wind blow — the northernmost of the three places in Steward's survey where it was a weather instrument, with Elko and Battle Mountain on the Humboldt below it. Against that stand flat denials from the south, in Death Valley and the Owens Valley, where it was a child's plaything and nothing more. Steward made the split a general one: the southern Great Basin used the roarer as a toy, the northern to bring the wind.
Particulars
- Object
- Recorded as present without description of the object itself.
Source
Julian H. Steward, 'Culture Element Distributions: XIII, Nevada Shoshoni,' Anthropological Records 4:2 (1941), pp. 250 and 307