{"id":"CARROLL2024-009","label":"Daraia áki kwèfan","people_or_site":"Nama speakers, Daraia","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Daraia village, north-east of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"áki kwèfan","source_term":"bullroarer: áki kwèfan","source_language":"Nama","object_description":"A bullroarer, called áki kwèfan; 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 nama-52-1 'áki kwèfan'; language Nama; village Daraia; source code js.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Daraia village, 08°37.00'S 141°44.08'E after Georges et al. 2005 p. 6 (OpenStreetMap 'Darava' at the same point); village anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Nama of Daraia, north-east of Morehead station in the Trans-Fly of Papua New Guinea, call the bullroarer áki kwèfan. They keep a full set of names for the instruments of sound: the drum is brubru, and two bamboo flutes are burarè and latu. At Mibini, speakers of the closely related Namat call the roarer saɸaŋgə; to the north, Neme speakers at Keru say màyang.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"áki kwèfan: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Nama, Daraia, Jeff Siegel 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 áki kwèfan; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"nama","display_name":"Daraia áki kwèfan","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG99_schmeltz1896_fig15_tiparu.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG99_schmeltz1896_fig15_tiparu_thumb.jpg","alt":"Schmeltz’s 1896 drawing of the Toaripi tiparu after Edge-Partington: a broad leaf-like blade with a face at one end, repeated chevron bands and short fibre ties at its tips and shoulders.","credit":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, \"Das Schwirrholz\" (1896), fig. 15, after Edge-Partington, Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, 2nd ser., pl. 201 fig. 1","license":"Public domain (published 1896)","source_page":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Verh-Ver-Naturwiss-Unterh-Hamburg_9_0092-0128.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Toaripi tiparu of Edge-Partington's album","pool_id":"auto-PNG99_schmeltz1896_fig15_tiparu","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"carroll2024-009-nama-speakers-daraia"}