. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] BULLS BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 171. from a piece of lightning-riven wood and measure the length of the string from the heart to the tips of the fingers of the out- stretched right hand (Fewkes). The Navaho make the bullroarer of the same material, but regard it as representing the voice of the thunder- bird, whose figure they often paint ujaon it, the eyes being in- dicated by inset pieces of turquoise (Culin). Bourkewas led to believe that the rhombus of the Apache was made by the medicine men from the wood of pine or fir that had been struck by lightning
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] BULLS BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 171. from a piece of lightning-riven wood and measure the length of the string from the heart to the tips of the fingers of the out- stretched right hand (Fewkes). The Navaho make the bullroarer of the same material, but regard it as representing the voice of the thunder- bird, whose figure they often paint ujaon it, the eyes being in- dicated by inset pieces of turquoise (Culin). Bourkewas led to believe that the rhombus of the Apache was made by the medicine men from the wood of pine or fir that had been struck by lightning on the mountain tops. Apache, Hopi, and Zuiiibullroarers bear lightning symbols, ~-i ,",•'. J, ' APACHE Bullroarer; Length and while ni the , ^ches. (bourke) semi-arid region the implement is used to invoke clouds, lightning, and rain, and to warn the initi- ated that rites are being performed, in the humid area it is used to implore the wind to l>ring fair weather. The bull- roarer is a sacred implement, associated with rain, wind, and lightning, and among the Kwakiutl, according to Boas, with ghosts. By some tribes it retains this sacred character, but among others it has degenerated into a child's toy, for which use its European antitype also survives among civilized nations. Consult Bourke, Medicine-men of the Apache, 9th Rep. B. A. E., 1892; Fewkes, Tusayan Snake Ceremonies, 16th Rep. B. A. E., 1897; Haddon, Study of Man, 219, 1898; Lang, Custom and Myth, 39, 1885; Mooney, Ghost Dance Religion, 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; Murdoch in 9th Rep. B. A. E., 1892; Schmeltz in Verb. d. Ve- reins f. naturw. Unterhaltung zu Ham- burg, IX, 92, 1896. (w. H.) Bulls. A Hidatsa band or society; mentioned byCulbertson ( 1850, 143, 1851) as a clan. For a similar society among the Piegan, see Stumiks. BuUtown. A Shawnee or Mingo vil- lage of 5 families on Little Kanawha r., W. Va.; destroyed by whites in 1772.— Kaufmann, W.'Penn., 180, 1851. Buokongahelas. See Buckong
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