Bull Roarer used by Shamans to scare away Spirits and by Children as a Toy
Tanana
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
possibly collected 1929-1933
Wood and nylon string
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925
42.41.8528
Geography
Place Made: Tanana River region, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Musical Instrument
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Publication History
Robert A. McKennan, The Upper Tanana Indians, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number 55, New Haven: Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1957, p. 66, fig. 4B.
Provenance
Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982); given to present collection, 1942.
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