{"id":"CARROLL2024-004","label":"Wereave sosam","people_or_site":"Rema speakers, Wereave","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Wereave (Wereavere) village, western Morehead district near the Indonesian border, South Fly District, Western Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"sosam","source_term":"bullroarer: sosam","source_language":"Rema","object_description":"A bullroarer, called sosam; its form is not recorded.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"carroll2024_yamfinder","source_type":"academic_language_description","source_url":"https://yamfinder.com/","page_or_plate":"Yamfinder concept 52 'bullroarer'; CLDF rema-52-1 'sosam'; language Rema; village Wereave; source code em.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Wereave (Wereavere) village point (OpenStreetMap, South Fly District); Yamfinder places the Rema entry at Wereave; village anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Rema speakers at Wereave, close to the Indonesian border in the far south-west of Papua New Guinea, call the bullroarer sosam. The word is the name of Sosom, the stone-bodied giant of the Marind across the border, whose voice the bullroarer was, and whose home some Marind tellings set in this borderland, among the Kanum. Sosam is the bullroarer's name too at Sota, just over the border, and among the Arammba at Kiriwa.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"sosam: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Rema, Wereave, Emil Mittag field data)","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":["snake"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer'","url":"https://yamfinder.com/"},{"citation":"CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., \"Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database\", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024)","url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10843349"},{"citation":"J. van Baal, Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (The Hague, 1966), pp. 267-268","url":"https://www.papuaerfgoed.org/sites/default/files/collectie/files/2003-10/Van%20Baal_1966_Dema.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260428065216/https://www.papuaerfgoed.org/sites/default/files/collectie/files/2003-10/Van%20Baal_1966_Dema.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer'; CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., \"Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database\", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024); J. van Baal, Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (The Hague, 1966), pp. 267-268","source_display":"Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer'; CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., \"Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database\", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024); J. van Baal, Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (The…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called sosam; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"rema","display_name":"Wereave sosam","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/FINSCH1888-001_finsch1888_tafel5_fig6.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/thumbs/FINSCH1888-001_finsch1888_tafel5_fig6_thumb.jpg","credit":"O. Finsch, Ethnologischer Atlas (1888), Taf. V","license":"Public domain (published 1888)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qeAqAAAAYAAJ/page/n66/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Finsch's fig. 6: a Djabobibi blade","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--FINSCH1888-001_finsch1888_tafel5_fig6","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"carroll2024-004-rema-speakers-wereave"}