No. NAAIN-019
Muscogee Creek fohfokv bull-roarer game
United States · Eufaula · eastern Oklahoma · North America · Southeast
Play / practical
fohfokv
Source term: fohfokv; bull-roarer
fohfokv — Muscogee (Creek) word glossed as "bull-roarer" in James H. Hill's "Various Games" text, where it is named as a game for one person to play alone.
Among the Muscogee (Creek) the bull-roarer was fohfokv, a game you played by yourself. James H. Hill of Eufaula, Oklahoma, named it in a short text on various games, one of some 140 stories and language samples he wrote out in Muscogee for the linguist Mary R. Haas between 1936 and 1940; there the toy sits among ordinary amusements.
Fohfokv sahkopvnkvo océs.
There was also a game [called] fohfokv ['bull-roarer'].
Mary R. Haas & James H. Hill, Creek (Muskogee) Texts, ed. Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin & Juanita McGirt (2015), James Hill's text on games
Particulars
- Object
- A whirled noisemaker.
- Function
- A game played alone.
Source
Mary R. Haas and James H. Hill, Creek (Muskogee) Texts, edited and translated by Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin, and Juanita McGirt (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015), pp. 247, 254