Kutenai bull-roarer

Source term: bull-roarer

At the eastern edge of the Plateau, where the Kootenay runs down toward the Rockies, the bullroarer is built differently. Along the Columbia the cord was whirled from the bare hand; the Kutenai swung theirs from a handle, a stick to whirl it by. Otherwise the Kutenai instrument did everything a Plateau roarer could do — wooden, of cedar, a child's toy, an influence on the weather; it called the Chinook and brought rain, and children sounded it when the old people asked them to. Only the Kittitas, on the Yakima, matched it use for use.

Particulars

Object

A wooden blade whirled on a cord, fitted with a handle.