Coeur d'Alene bull-roarer

Source term: bull-roarer

The Coeur d'Alene bullroarer was wooden, of cedar or else of deer rib, whirled from a cord held in the hand, and it was a child's toy. Against the weather it was given a flat no. That no is placed interestingly: northwest, the Kalispel also refused the weather use; northeast, over the mountains, the Kutenai claimed every weather power and called the Chinook by name. The boundary between a Plateau where the roarer works on the sky and a Plateau where it is a plaything runs somewhere across this ground, and the Coeur d'Alene answer is one of the two posts it hangs from.

Particulars

Object

Recorded in two forms, a wooden blade of cedar and one of deer rib, whirled on a cord held in the hand; the handle was denied.

Function

A child's toy of cedar or deer rib, whirled from the hand; the weather function is explicitly denied.