{"id":"HADDON1920-001","label":"Biagi and Kambisa bui-i","people_or_site":"Biagi (Mount Victoria group) and Kambisa (Upper Chirima Valley group)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Mount Victoria group and Upper Chirima Valley group, Owen Stanley Range, Northern Division of Papua (now Oro / Central provinces)","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"bui-i","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A bullroarer called bui-i; no physical description recorded.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"haddon1920_migrations","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.15589/page/n287/mode/1up","page_or_plate":"p. 267; p. 268 (Mawai bui); p. 280, Map V","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Midpoint between the BIAGI label (just north-east of Mount Victoria, about 8°47'S 147°36'E) and the KAMBISA label (by the Chirima River, about 8°30'S 147°30'E) on Haddon's Map V; regional anchor, not a village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"High on the flanks of Mount Victoria, the Biagi measured a young man by the men he had killed. A youth who had taken a life was shut away for two months in a special house, then brought out at a great feast, the maiwai, to be dressed in the insignia of a homicide; until then he had little hope of winning a girl. These mountain people knew the bullroarer as bui-i, and so did the Kambisa to the north in the upper Chirima valley. Down the Waria the Mawai called theirs bui, and gave the same name to the elders who taught the boys.","pull_quote":"The bullroarer, bui-i, occurs, as it also does among the Kambisa of the Upper Chirima Valley Group","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"A. C. Haddon, \"Migrations of Cultures in British New Guinea,\" JRAI 50 (1920), p. 267","term_gloss":"bui-i: the Biagi and Kambisa name for the bullroarer. maiwai: the Biagi feast at which a young homicide is decorated. bui: the Mawai bullroarer, and also their elders.","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":"A. C. Haddon, \"Migrations of Cultures in British New Guinea,\" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 50 (1920), pp. 267–268, 280 (Map V)","url":"https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.15589/page/n287/mode/1up"}],"source_citations":"A. C. Haddon, \"Migrations of Cultures in British New Guinea,\" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 50 (1920), pp. 267–268, 280 (Map V)","source_display":"A. C. Haddon, \"Migrations of Cultures in British New Guinea,\" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 50 (1920), pp. 267–268, 280 (Map V)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer called bui-i; no physical description recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"biagi","display_name":"Biagi and Kambisa bui-i","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NGUINEA-012_mqb_72-1993-1-31_mairipepia.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NGUINEA-012_mqb_72-1993-1-31_mairipepia_thumb.jpg","alt":"A second blade from Mairipepia, acquired with this one: painted white and rust-red zigzags, cross motifs and a stylized face, with cord tied at one end and laid along an edge.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac","license":"N/A","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/305039","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A second blade from Mairipepia, acquired with this one","pool_id":"auto-NGUINEA-012_mqb_72-1993-1-31_mairipepia","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"haddon1920-001-biagi-mount-victoria-group-and-kambisa-upper-chirima-valley-group"}