WISSLER1911-001 - ethnographic attestation
Blackfoot Confederacy, northern Plains
Canada - United States - Blackfoot Confederacy territory - North America - Northern 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.
- 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.
- Map confidence
- low - Blackfoot Confederacy anchor at the Alberta-Montana border; no locality or term recorded.
- Source location
- Wissler 1911, p. 54
- Toy / secular survival