The Bullroarer Atlas

NA-S1952-009 - secondary catalog

Mono

United States - California - Great Basin - North America

Sacred / spirit

A pale wooden slat blotched with reddish stain, smooth-edged, cut to a point at one end and squared at the other where a frayed cord passes...
Representative image. A pale wooden slat blotched with reddish stain, smooth-edged, cut to a point at one end and squared at the other where a frayed cord passes through the hole - shown for the general Hopi-associated form, not the Mono object this page documents, which has never been photographed. Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Etnografisk) (UEM29633/f) CC BY-SA Image source

Source term: bullroarer

In his 1952 survey of North American instruments, Theodore A. Seder recorded the bull-roarer as a curing tool among the shamans of the Mono, listing them with the Yokuts, Pomo, Diegueno, Navaho, Tonto Apache, and Papago. The entry names the practice but not the rite, and points to no single Mono village.

Function
Instrument used as assembly signal; listed with shamanic curative properties
Map confidence
medium - regional_anchor: Representative Mono/Sierra-Great Basin anchor; no exact site in Seder summary
Source location
51-54

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