{"id":"EXH2026-034","label":"Yimar (Korowori)","people_or_site":"Yimar (Yimas-Karawari area)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Upper Korowori (Karawari) River, East Sepik","macroregion":"Oceania / New Guinea","local_name":"irimundur","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"A Yimar bullroarer.","function_summary":"Part of Yimar men's-cult equipment, restricted to a sphere closed to women and children.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"exhaustiveness2026","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/dieyimaramoberen0000habe","page_or_plate":"irimundur p. 196; Abb. 62, p. 197; instruments pp. 190-222","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"upper Korowori/Karawari river country","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Yimar of the upper Korowori River in the East Sepik, the bullroarer belonged to the men alone. Eike Haberland and Siegfried Seyfarth, in their 1974 monograph on the group, set it among the gear of a sphere closed to women and children — the same male world that produced the carved one-legged hunting-spirit figures kept in the men's house and, when their owners died, carried up to the limestone caves of the hills. They recorded its Yimar name as irimundur.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"irimundur — the Yimar (upper Korowori River) name for the bullroarer, recorded by Haberland and Seyfarth among the instruments of the men's sphere.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Eike Haberland & Siegfried Seyfarth, Die Yimar am oberen Korowori (Neuguinea), Studien zur Kulturkunde 36 (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1974), pp. 190-222, esp. p. 196 and Abb. 62, p. 197","url":"https://archive.org/details/dieyimaramoberen0000habe"}],"source_citations":"Eike Haberland & Siegfried Seyfarth, Die Yimar am oberen Korowori (Neuguinea), Studien zur Kulturkunde 36 (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1974), pp. 190-222, esp. p. 196 and Abb. 62, p. 197","source_display":"Eike Haberland & Siegfried Seyfarth, Die Yimar am oberen Korowori (Neuguinea), Studien zur Kulturkunde 36 (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1974), pp. 190-222, esp. p. 196 and Abb. 62, p. 197","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A Yimar bullroarer.","function_display":"Part of Yimar men's-cult equipment, restricted to a sphere closed to women and children.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"yimar","display_name":"Yimar (Korowori)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EXH2026-034_nmvw_wm51637.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EXH2026-034_nmvw_wm51637_thumb.jpg","alt":"Aurimbit painted wooden blade, long and flat, with broad ochre and pale looping bands, smaller geometric marks, and cord at its narrow end.","credit":"Collectie Wereldmuseum (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen), WM-51637","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/1093870","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A painted flat wooden board from Aurimbit."},"slug":"exh2026-034-yimar-yimas-karawari-area"}