{"id":"CARROLL2024-007","label":"Tais mburere","people_or_site":"Len speakers, Tais","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Tais village, southern Morehead district near the coast, South Fly District, Western Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"mburere","source_term":"bullroarer: mburere","source_language":"Len","object_description":"A bullroarer, called mburere; 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 len-52-1 'mburere'; language Len; village Tais; source code ne.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Tais village point (OpenStreetMap, South Fly District); village anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Tais, near the coast in the south of the Morehead district of Papua New Guinea, Len speakers call the bullroarer mburere. The name stands apart from the meyang and moiank of the Nambu languages to the north. Its echo lies in the other instrument of the region: burere, burara or burarè is the bamboo flute in Namo, Ndre and Nama.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"mburere: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Len, Tais, Nicholas Evans field data)","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"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"}],"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)","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)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called mburere; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"len","display_name":"Tais mburere","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39766.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39766_thumb.jpg","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1905.63.14)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39766","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Goaribari bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)","pool_id":"gulf-papua-goaribari","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"carroll2024-007-len-speakers-tais"}