{"id":"DAMM1938-001","label":"Ifaluk legawüliwuli coconut-leaf bullroarer toy","people_or_site":"Ifaluk islanders","country_current":"Federated States of Micronesia","historic_region":"Ifaluk Atoll, Central Caroline Islands (Yap State)","macroregion":"Oceania / Micronesia","local_name":"legawüliwuli","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"A bullroarer made from coconut leaf.","function_summary":"A plaything.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"damm1938_zentralkarolinen2","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=ldU2dDSLyIEC&pg=PA96&q=Schwirrholz","page_or_plate":"p. 96","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Ifaluk Atoll centre; the source names the island, not a village","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On Ifaluk, a low coral atoll in the central Carolines, the toys came from the coconut palm: a ball, a toy bow, little boats, a whistle of coconut leaf, a windmill of leaf strips turning on a coconut-rib axle, and a bullroarer of coconut leaf, the legawüliwuli.","pull_quote":"Schwirrholz (legawüliwuli) aus Kokosblatt","pull_quote_translation":"A bullroarer (legawüliwuli) made of coconut leaf","pull_quote_cite":"Damm 1938, Zentralkarolinen II, p. 96","term_gloss":"legawüliwuli: Ifaluk name for the coconut-leaf bullroarer toy (Damm 1938, p. 96); the source gives no etymology.","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":"Hans Damm (with E. Sarfert), Zentralkarolinen II: Ifaluk, Aurepik, Faraulip, Sorol, Mogemog, Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908–1910, II B 10, part 2 (Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1938), p. 96","url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=ldU2dDSLyIEC&pg=PA96&q=Schwirrholz"}],"source_citations":"Hans Damm (with E. Sarfert), Zentralkarolinen II: Ifaluk, Aurepik, Faraulip, Sorol, Mogemog, Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908–1910, II B 10, part 2 (Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1938), p. 96","source_display":"Hans Damm (with E. Sarfert), Zentralkarolinen II: Ifaluk, Aurepik, Faraulip, Sorol, Mogemog, Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908–1910, II B 10, part 2 (Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter, 1938), p. 96","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer made from coconut leaf.","function_display":"A plaything.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"ifaluk","display_name":"Ifaluk legawüliwuli coconut-leaf bullroarer 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":"2026-10-23"},"slug":"damm1938-001-ifaluk-islanders"}