{"id":"CAPELL1951-001","label":"Sonsorol buzzing-wood toy","people_or_site":"Sonsorol islanders (Songosor)","country_current":"Palau","historic_region":"Sonsorol (Songosor / Dongosaro), Southwest Islands of Palau","macroregion":"Oceania / Micronesia","local_name":"faurijeŋ; faurien","source_term":"A toy bullroarer; buzzing wood (only a toy)","source_language":"Sonsorolese","object_description":"A wooden buzzing toy; form, size and cord not recorded.","function_summary":"A plaything; no other use recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"capell1951_sonsorol_tobi_vocabulary","source_type":"academic_language_description","source_url":"https://www.friendsoftobi.org/wordweek/capell.htm","page_or_plate":"Capell p. 118; key p. 105 (S = Sonsorol; H = Hamburg Expedition vocabulary); Eilers, Songosor p. 64","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Sonsorol (Dongosaro) island, Southwest Islands of Palau (OpenStreetMap island point); island-level anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On Sonsorol the bullroarer was a plaything. The islanders called it faurien or faurijeŋ, \"buzzing wood, only a toy.\" Sonsorol is a low island of the Southwest Islands, more than three hundred kilometres from the main Palau group, and its people speak a language of the central Carolines rather than Palauan. Pulo Anna, the next island to the south, had its own word for the bullroarer: zorien.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"faurijeŋ (Capell) / faurien (Eilers): toy bullroarer, \"buzzing wood.\"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"A. Capell, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of Sonsorol-Tobi (1951; Oceania Linguistic Monographs 12, Sydney, 1969), p. 118","url":"https://www.friendsoftobi.org/wordweek/capell.htm"},{"citation":"Anneliese Eilers, Westkarolinen: Songosor, Pur (Hamburg, 1935), Songosor p. 64; English translation by Carmen C. H. Petrosian-Husa (2017)","url":"https://tekinged.com/misc/pdf.php?file=kraemer6","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240425055234/https://tekinged.com/misc/pdf.php?file=kraemer6"}],"source_citations":"A. Capell, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of Sonsorol-Tobi (1951; Oceania Linguistic Monographs 12, Sydney, 1969), p. 118; Anneliese Eilers, Westkarolinen: Songosor, Pur (Hamburg, 1935), Songosor p. 64; English translation by Carmen C. H. Petrosian-Husa (2017)","source_display":"A. Capell, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of Sonsorol-Tobi (1951; Oceania Linguistic Monographs 12, Sydney, 1969), p. 118; Anneliese Eilers, Westkarolinen: Songosor, Pur (Hamburg, 1935), Songosor p. 64; English translation by Carmen C. H. Petrosian-Husa (2017)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden buzzing toy; form, size and cord not recorded.","function_display":"A plaything; no other use recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"sonsorol","display_name":"Sonsorol buzzing-wood toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/DAVIDSON2017-001_davidsonleach2017_fig9_pig_bay.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/DAVIDSON2017-001_davidsonleach2017_fig9_pig_bay_thumb.jpg","alt":"Bone and shell finds from Pig Bay, numbered 1–6; the long flat bone item at left, marked 1, is identified as a possible kōrorohū bullroarer.","credit":"Janet Davidson and Foss Leach, Records of the Auckland Museum 52 (2017), Fig. 9","license":"© Auckland War Memorial Museum / the authors — no open license stated for vol. 52; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://ref.coastalrestorationtrust.org.nz/site/assets/files/10637/ram52davidsonleach_pdf.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Bone and shell items from Pig Bay; the bullroarer","pool_id":"auto-DAVIDSON2017-001_davidsonleach2017_fig9_pig_bay","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"capell1951-001-sonsorol-islanders-songosor"}