No. WISSLER1911-001
Blackfoot children's bull roarer
Canada · United States · Blackfoot Confederacy territory · North America · Plains
Play / practical
Wissler's inventory of Blackfoot childhood gives the bull roarer one plain sentence: it was known as a children's toy, beside the bone buzzer — two noisemakers, separately named. No Blackfoot word for it was written down, and nothing of how it was made; on the northern Plains the record is exactly as wide as a toy chest.
Particulars
- Function
- Known as a children's toy, listed separately from the bone buzzer; the Teton winged bones and the snow snake were not recognized by Wissler's informants.
Source
Clark Wissler, The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians (AMNH Anthropological Papers 7:1, 1911), p. 54: 'The buzzer of bone and the bull roarer were known as children's toys, but the winged bones of the Teton and the snow snake were not recognized by our informants.'