Ihalmiut Nueltin Lake ROM model bull-roarer 2018-21-4

Source term: Model bull-roarer

A small bullroarer of wood and hide, about sixteen centimetres long, collected among the Ihalmiut of the Nueltin Lake barrens around 1948 and now in the Royal Ontario Museum. It belongs to the Farley Mowat Collection: Mowat, who would later write People of the Deer about these inland Caribou Inuit, was in the same country as a wildlife field technician studying barren-ground caribou when he gathered it, along with a companion piece from June of that year that he labelled a "Toy Ihalmute Memeo or Bull-roarer."

Particulars

Object

Model bullroarer of wood and hide in Farley Mowat Collection

Function

Model or toy evidence from Ihalmiut/Nueltin Lake area