The Bullroarer Atlas

NAAIN-014 - museum specimen

Iñupiaq / Kotzebue

United States - Alaska - Kotzebue Sound - North America - Arctic

Play / practical

Representative—not this record’s object: a Point Barrow Iñupiaq wolf-scarer drawing.
Representative—not this record’s object: a Point Barrow Iñupiaq wolf-scarer drawing. J. Murdoch, Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition, BAE 9th Annual Report (1892), fig. 377 — via archive.org Public domain Image source

Source term: Bullroarer wolf scarer

Amy B. Jones made this Iñupiaq bullroarer at Kotzebue in 1976 from roots and seal sinew. The National Museum of the American Indian identifies its practical use directly: scaring wolves.

Bullroarer for scaring wolves

National Museum of the American Indian, NMAI_278624 / 26-2512
Object
Bullroarer made by Amy B. Jones in 1976 from roots and seal sinew.
Function
Wolf scarer; non-ritual practical use.
Map confidence
high - Kotzebue community anchor shifted on land because the museum-published regional coordinate fell just offshore of the rendered coastline; not an exact findspot
Source location
NMAI_278624 / catalog 26/2512

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