{"id":"FAMSF2013-001","label":"Aimei Kiwai Kaiaimuru bullroarer","people_or_site":"Aimei village / northeastern Kiwai (Gibaio dialect)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Gulf Province / lower Era River","macroregion":"Oceania / New Guinea","local_name":"Kaiaimuru","source_term":"Bull-roarer, Kaiaimuru","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wood-and-lime slat, 58.4 x 8.9 x 0.6 cm (23 x 3 1/2 x 1/4 in.), 19th-early 20th century; cord and exact outline are not recorded.","function_summary":"Among the Kiwai the madubu, or bullroarer, was shown to each novice inside a tabooed and fenced patch of bush and he was taught to use it; its whirling was held to secure the crops of yams, sweet potatoes and bananas.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"famsf2013_aimei_kaiaimuru","source_type":"museum_deaccession_report","source_url":"https://www.sfgov.org/sfc/sites/default/files/Fine%20Arts/Documents/FAMSF/Appendix_I_ACQUISITIONS_COMMITTEE_REPORT_5_15_2013_for_6_16_13_BT_MINUTES.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 4-1; L05.1.175","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap/Nominatim named-village geocode for Aimei, matching the source locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A wood-and-lime bullroarer nearly sixty centimetres long, recorded as Kaiaimuru, from Aimei village on the lower Era River — a Kiwai-speaking, Gibaio-dialect outpost at the eastern edge of the Kiwai world. Further west, among the Kiwai whose language its makers spoke, the roarer was called madubu, and at Iasa Haddon was told that one was shown to each novice in a tabooed and fenced-in portion of the bush, where he was taught how to use it; the whirling of the madubu ensured a good crop of yams, sweet potatoes and bananas.","pull_quote":"Bull-roarer, Kaiaimuru","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Acquisitions Committee report, May 15, 2013, p. 4-1, L05.1.175.","term_gloss":"Kaiaimuru: the name recorded for this bullroarer at Aimei; its meaning is unrecorded.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["snake","initiation","agriculture"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, First Step Deaccessioning (Africa Oceania Americas), Acquisitions Committee report, May 15, 2013, item L05.1.175: 'Bull-roarer, Kaiaimuru', wood and lime, 58.4 x 8.9 x 0.6 cm, 'Aimei village; northeastern Kiwai language speakers (Gibaio dialect)', lower Era River; A. C. Haddon (ed.), Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, vol. V (1904), p. 218","url":"https://www.sfgov.org/sfc/sites/default/files/Fine%20Arts/Documents/FAMSF/Appendix_I_ACQUISITIONS_COMMITTEE_REPORT_5_15_2013_for_6_16_13_BT_MINUTES.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013011745/https://www.sfgov.org/sfc/sites/default/files/Fine%20Arts/Documents/FAMSF/Appendix_I_ACQUISITIONS_COMMITTEE_REPORT_5_15_2013_for_6_16_13_BT_MINUTES.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, First Step Deaccessioning (Africa Oceania Americas), Acquisitions Committee report, May 15, 2013, item L05.1.175: 'Bull-roarer, Kaiaimuru', wood and lime, 58.4 x 8.9 x 0.6 cm, 'Aimei village; northeastern Kiwai language speakers (Gibaio dialect)', lower Era River; A. C. Haddon (ed.), Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, vol. V (1904), p. 218","source_display":"Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, First Step Deaccessioning (Africa Oceania Americas), Acquisitions Committee report, May 15, 2013, item L05.1.175: 'Bull-roarer, Kaiaimuru', wood and lime, 58.4 x 8.9 x 0.6 cm, 'Aimei village; northeastern Kiwai language speakers (Gibaio dialect)', lower Era River; A. C. Haddon (ed.), Reports of the Cambridge…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wood-and-lime slat, 58.4 x 8.9 x 0.6 cm (23 x 3 1/2 x 1/4 in.), 19th-early 20th century; cord and exact outline are not recorded.","function_display":"Among the Kiwai the madubu, or bullroarer, was shown to each novice inside a tabooed and fenced patch of bush and he was taught to use it; its whirling was held to secure the crops of yams, sweet potatoes and bananas.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"aimei","display_name":"Aimei Kiwai Kaiaimuru bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/FAMSF2013-001_famsf2013-001-kiwai-finna-vk4902-716.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/FAMSF2013-001_famsf2013-001-kiwai-finna-vk4902-716_thumb.jpg","alt":"Broad Kiwai blade from the Fly River mouth, with rounded ends, a small hole and peg near one end, and red, white and brown geometric paint.","credit":"Finnish Heritage Agency / Museovirasto, National Museum of Finland, Landtman collection VK4902:716","license":"CC BY 4.0; cropped from the existing landscape atlas image","source_page":"https://finna.fi/Record/musketti.M012%3AVK4902%3A716","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Kiwai blade from the Fly River mouth."},"slug":"famsf2013-001-aimei-village-northeastern-kiwai-gibaio-dialect"}