The Bullroarer Atlas

NAAIN-007 - museum specimen

Turtle Mountain Chippewa / Belcourt

United States - North Dakota - Turtle Mountain Reservation - North America - Plains-Subarctic edge

Function not recorded

A long, thin cane rod wrapped with cord and hung with a small wooden tag - a Pipil bullroarer from the same Stockholm collection, standing in...
Representative image. A long, thin cane rod wrapped with cord and hung with a small wooden tag - a Pipil bullroarer from the same Stockholm collection, standing in for the wood-and-rawhide instrument that Norman Joseph Plante made for the Turtle Mountain Chippewa in 1968, the object documented here. Museum of Ethnography (acc. 1900.03.0494) Image source

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. The museum records nothing of how it was used beyond classing it among sound-making objects.

Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Tipi Shop (Sioux Indian Museum and Crafts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota) in 1968; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.

National Museum of the American Indian, object record NMAI_275268 (catalog 25/9278)
Object
Wood and rawhide bullroarer made in 1968 by Norman Joseph Plante
Function
Contemporary Turtle Mountain Chippewa manufacture; function not specified beyond music/sound classification
Map confidence
medium_high - Belcourt/Turtle Mountain Reservation is the source place; not Rapid City purchase source or Washington DC
Source location
NMAI object record NMAI_275268 / catalog 25/9278 / barcode 259278

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