Norman Plante's rawhide roarer

Source term: Bullroarer

This wood-and-rawhide bullroarer, about 84 centimeters long, was carved in 1968 by Norman Joseph Plante, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa craftsman from Belcourt, on the reservation in Rolette County, North Dakota. Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives bought it that year from the Tipi Shop at the Sioux Indian Museum in Rapid City, South Dakota; it stayed in the Board's headquarters collection at the Department of the Interior until 2000, when it was transferred to the National Museum of the American Indian. What Plante made it for went unrecorded.

Bull roarer made of carved wood handle with leather strap and rawhide leaf-shaped piece.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, catalogue card 25/9278

Particulars

Object

Wood and rawhide bullroarer made in 1968 by Norman Joseph Plante

Function

Not recorded.