No. NAGPRA2009-001
Elk Hills cemetery bullroarer fragment (CA-KER-116)
United States · Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, California · North America
Function not recorded Candidate only
Archaeological datec. 1780–1818 ADSpan of the cemetery's use; fragment not directly dated.
When Edwin Walker opened the Elk Hills cemetery beside Buena Vista Lake in 1935, the graves gave up more than five thousand objects — abalone-shell containers, beads, baskets — and among them a single fragment of a bullroarer. The cemetery served a Yokuts lakeshore village in the decades around 1800, when glass beads and buttons were already moving up the southern San Joaquin Valley.
Particulars
- Object
- One 'bull roarer fragment' among 5,508 unassociated funerary objects from site P-15-000116 (CA-KER-116), excavated by Edwin F. Walker, 1935.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Federal Register 74:42 (5 March 2009), NAGPRA notice of inventory completion, Autry National Center / Southwest Museum, pp. 9625-9626