No. NAMER-003
Northern Ojibwa bullroarer, Weagamow Lake
Canada · Ontario · Weagamow Lake · North America · Subarctic
Function not recorded
Source term: Bullroarer
A wooden bullroarer 58 centimetres long, from the Northern Ojibwa community at Weagamow Lake in northwestern Ontario, now in the Royal Ontario Museum as object 975.261. It reached the museum from Dr. E. S. Rogers, the ROM ethnologist who had done fieldwork among the Round Lake Ojibwa in the late 1950s and wrote the standard monograph on them, "The Round Lake Ojibwa" (1962).
Particulars
- Object
- Wooden bullroarer, 58 x 5.5 x 0.7 cm, made by Northern Ojibwa; ROM object 975.261.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
Source
Royal Ontario Museum, Bullroarer, object 975.261; maker Northern Ojibwa; geography Weagamow Lake, Ontario, Canada; date c. 1975; gift of Dr. E.S. Rogers