RAY1942-006 - ethnographic attestation
Lillooet (Stl'atl'imx)
Canada - Fraser River at Lillooet, southern British Columbia - North America - Plateau
Play / practical
Source term: bull-roarer
The Lillooet bullroarer was wooden, of cedar, whirled from the bare hand, and a child's toy. No power over the weather is attested for it — though none was denied either, as it was among the Kalispel and Shuswap — and so the Lillooet stand with their downriver neighbours in the Plateau's toy province, where the instrument belonged to children and the sky was left alone.
- Object
- A wooden blade, of cedar, whirled on a cord held in the hand.
- Function
- A child's toy of cedar, whirled from the hand.
- Map confidence
- medium - Lillooet on the Fraser, southern British Columbia. Territory anchor for the named people; not a use site.
- Source location
- printed p. 184, elements 4094-4103
- Toy / secular survival