{"id":"ADAM1958-001","label":"Lombadina mondegi draws a lover","people_or_site":"Lombadina (maker’s people unrecorded)","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Lombadina, Dampier Peninsula, West Kimberley, Western Australia","macroregion":"Australia / Kimberley","local_name":"mondegi","source_term":"Schwirrholz; churinga (mondegi)","source_language":"German","object_description":"A wooden mondegi, 22.2 × 4.5 cm, engraved with a woman on one side and curving designs on the other; both sides are illustrated with the cord attached.","function_summary":"Swung in love magic to draw a woman’s thoughts toward the man sounding it.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"adam1958_anthropomorphic","source_type":"ethnographic_article","source_url":"https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/image/DE-11-001896210/49/","page_or_plate":"pp. 9–10, fig. 1a–b; p. 49 illustration index","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Lombadina community location (GeoNames 8606294); Adam places the find in coastal dunes near Lombadina, not at a mapped tree.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"To draw a woman’s thoughts toward him, a man could sing or swing a small mondegi. The woman is engraved on the front of this Lombadina board, one arm bent beside her head; the reverse is a curling design. It was found behind loose bark on an old paperbark tree, among trees surrounding a secret men’s meeting place in the dunes near the ocean.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"mondegi: Adam’s name for the Lombadina board and a Karadjeri name for this small love-magic bullroarer type.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Leonhard Adam, “Anthropomorphe Darstellungen auf australischen Ritualgeräten,” Anthropos 53 (1958), pp. 1–50, pp. 9–10, fig. 1a–b.","url":"https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/image/DE-11-001896210/49/"},{"citation":"Adam 1958, p. 49: illustration index, locality, dimensions and collection.","url":"https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/image/DE-11-001896210/97/"}],"source_citations":"Leonhard Adam, “Anthropomorphe Darstellungen auf australischen Ritualgeräten,” Anthropos 53 (1958), pp. 1–50, pp. 9–10, fig. 1a–b.; Adam 1958, p. 49: illustration index, locality, dimensions and collection.","source_display":"Leonhard Adam, “Anthropomorphe Darstellungen auf australischen Ritualgeräten,” Anthropos 53 (1958), pp. 1–50, pp. 9–10, fig. 1a–b.; Adam 1958, p. 49: illustration index, locality, dimensions and collection.","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden mondegi, 22.2 × 4.5 cm, engraved with a woman on one side and curving designs on the other; both sides are illustrated with the cord attached.","function_display":"Swung in love magic to draw a woman’s thoughts toward the man sounding it.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lombadina","display_name":"Lombadina mondegi draws a lover","image":{"full":"assets/objects/adam1958/lombadina-mondegi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/adam1958/lombadina-mondegi_thumb.jpg","alt":"Front and back drawings of a corded wooden blade: a full female figure with a face and raised arm, and a winding engraved design.","credit":"Leonhard Adam, Anthropos 53 (1958), fig. 1; digitized by Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / EVIFA","license":"","source_page":"https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/image/DE-11-001896210/49/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Both sides of the Lombadina mondegi: a woman with one arm raised, and a curving design on the reverse."},"slug":"adam1958-001-lombadina-maker-s-people-unrecorded"}