NAMER-003 - museum specimen
Northern Ojibwa, Weagamow Lake, Ontario
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 came to the museum as a gift of 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). The catalog records the maker, the wood, the dimensions, and the place, but says nothing of how the slat was swung or who heard it.
- Object
- Wooden bullroarer, 58 x 5.5 x 0.7 cm, made by Northern Ojibwa; ROM object 975.261.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - Weagamow Lake / Round Lake locality centroid from the object geography; not a findspot.
- Source location
- ROM object 975.261