{"id":"CARROLL2024-010","label":"Wim wɑgrɑ","people_or_site":"Kawam speakers, Wim","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Wim village, Pahoturi River country, South Fly District, Western Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"wɑgrɑ","source_term":"bullroarer: wɑgrɑ","source_language":"Kawam","object_description":"A bullroarer, called wɑgrɑ; 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 kawam-52-1 'wɑgrɑ'; language Kawam; village Wim; source code kl.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Wim village point (OpenStreetMap, South Fly District); Lindsey 2019 p. 229 Table 88 lists Wim, Kapal and Beyambod as Kawam villages; village anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Wim, in the Pahoturi River country of south-western Papua New Guinea, Kawam speakers call the bullroarer wɑgrɑ. It is one word carried across a language border. Their Ende-speaking neighbours say waglla, and east of them the Bine, whose language belongs to another family altogether, say wagra. Yet at Kinkin, Taeme speakers of the same small Pahoturi family call it mələs.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"wɑgrɑ: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Kawam, Wim, Kate L. Lindsey field data; phonetic transcription)","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"},{"citation":"Kate L. Lindsey, Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology (PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 2019), p. 229","url":"https://purl.stanford.edu/ys194fp6634","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261010142155/https://purl.stanford.edu/ys194fp6634"}],"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); Kate L. Lindsey, Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology (PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 2019), p. 229","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); Kate L. Lindsey, Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology (PhD dissertation…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called wɑgrɑ; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kawam","display_name":"Wim wɑgrɑ","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_19/BEAVER1920-001_haddon1901_fig8.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_19/BEAVER1920-001_haddon1901_fig8_thumb.jpg","alt":"Period drawing of three carved oval bullroarers on cords beside two small carved human figures, captioned Agricultural Charms of Kiwai.","credit":"A. C. Haddon, Head-hunters: Black, White, and Brown (1901), fig. 8","license":"Public domain","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/headhuntersblack00hadduoft/page/105/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Kiwai madubu, bullroarers for yams, with two sago effigies","pool_id":"auto-hunt_2026_10_19--BEAVER1920-001_haddon1901_fig8","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"carroll2024-010-kawam-speakers-wim"}