{"id":"BATAVIA1913-001","label":"Armati bark spirit-warning bullroarer","people_or_site":"Armati (Sarmi hinterland)","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Noord-Nieuw-Guinea (Dutch New Guinea), Sarmi hinterland","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"snorrebot","source_language":"Dutch","object_description":"A piece of tree bark on a single cord; Bataviaasch Genootschap accession 17076, entered in the 1913 register as Armati material from inland southwest of Sarmi.","function_summary":"Sounded to warn women and children that spirits were near.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"batavia_genootschap_notulen_1913","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105820/page/n246/mode/1up","page_or_plate":"Bijlage VII, pp. CVI-CVII, accession 17076","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Regional anchor inland southwest of Sarmi town (modern South Sarmi, where Papua provincial and language sources place Armati/Kwerba communities); the 1913 register records only 'landwaarts in ten Z.W. van Sarmi', no collection site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When spirits were about, a voice rose into the air: among the Armati, in the forest country inland and southwest of Sarmi on New Guinea's north coast, a plain piece of tree bark whirled on a cord warned women and children that the spirits were near — and to keep away. The 1913 Batavia register entered it among the workaday gear of Armati life — bows, sago mallets, plaited cord bags, a fire-making wristband — and one other sounding thing: a sacred bamboo flute.","pull_quote":"Muziekinstrument, snorrebot, een stuk boombast aan een touw, om vrouwen en kinderen voor de geesten te waarschuwen.","pull_quote_translation":"Musical instrument, bullroarer: a piece of tree bark on a cord, to warn women and children of the spirits.","pull_quote_cite":"Notulen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, deel LI (1913), Bijlage VII, p. CVII, accession 17076.","term_gloss":"Dutch for \"bullroarer\".","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Notulen van de Algemeene en Directie-vergaderingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, deel LI (1913; published 1914), Bijlage VII (accession register), pp. CVI–CVII, no. 17076","url":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105820/page/n246/mode/1up"}],"source_citations":"Notulen van de Algemeene en Directie-vergaderingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, deel LI (1913; published 1914), Bijlage VII (accession register), pp. CVI–CVII, no. 17076","source_display":"Notulen van de Algemeene en Directie-vergaderingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, deel LI (1913; published 1914), Bijlage VII (accession register), pp. CVI–CVII, no. 17076","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A piece of tree bark on a single cord; Bataviaasch Genootschap accession 17076, entered in the 1913 register as Armati material from inland southwest of Sarmi.","function_display":"Sounded to warn women and children that spirits were near.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"armati","display_name":"Armati bark spirit-warning bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATAVIA1913-001_notulen1913_pcvii.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATAVIA1913-001_notulen1913_pcvii_thumb.jpg","credit":"Notulen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, deel LI (1913), Bijlage VII","license":"Public domain in the United States (published 1914)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105820/page/n246/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"1913 accession-register entry for the Armati bark bullroarer, no. 17076."},"slug":"batavia1913-001-armati-sarmi-hinterland"}