{"id":"HAMBRUCH1908-001","label":"Aua Island Schwirrholz toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Aua Island (Durour)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Manus / Western Islands (Aua)","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz (Spielzeug)","source_language":"German","object_description":"Painted lance-shaped wooden blade, 130.5 cm long, tied by a single bast-fibre cord to a branch handle; SMB VI 24552.","function_summary":"Children’s toy, swung overhead for its humming sound.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"hambruch1908_wuvulu_aua","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Yv8oAQAAMAAJ","page_or_plate":"Hambruch 1908, pp. 126-127; SMB VI 24552","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Aua Island (Durour) centroid, Western Islands, Manus Province; Hambruch and SMB give the island locality, not an object findspot GPS","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On Aua, children swung a giant bullroarer for the pleasure of its hum. The painted, lance-shaped blade is 130.5 centimetres long—longer than many ceremonial examples—and flies from a branch handle on a single bast-fibre cord. Islanders described the toy as an old part of life on Aua.","pull_quote":"Ein letztes Spielzeug und gerade als solches sehr interessant ist das Schwirrholz. Es ist roh gearbeitet, ähnelt aber völlig dem in Melanesien gebräuchlichen Tombaran... Die Kinder spielen damit und freuen sich an dem summenden Geräusch.","pull_quote_translation":"A last toy, and precisely as such very interesting, is the bull-roarer. It is roughly made, but exactly resembles the tombaran used in Melanesia... The children play with it and delight in the humming sound.","pull_quote_cite":"Hambruch, 'Wuvulu und Aua,' Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg XXV (1908), pp. 126-127.","term_gloss":"","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":"Paul Hambruch, 'Wuvulu und Aua (Maty- und Durour-Inseln) auf Grund der Sammlung F. E. Hellwig aus den Jahren 1902 bis 1904,' Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg XXV (1908), pp. 126-127 and 190; Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, VI 24552","url":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Yv8oAQAAMAAJ"}],"source_citations":"Paul Hambruch, 'Wuvulu und Aua (Maty- und Durour-Inseln) auf Grund der Sammlung F. E. Hellwig aus den Jahren 1902 bis 1904,' Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg XXV (1908), pp. 126-127 and 190; Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, VI 24552","source_display":"Paul Hambruch, 'Wuvulu und Aua (Maty- und Durour-Inseln) auf Grund der Sammlung F. E. Hellwig aus den Jahren 1902 bis 1904,' Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg XXV (1908), pp. 126-127 and 190; Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, VI 24552","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Painted lance-shaped wooden blade, 130.5 cm long, tied by a single bast-fibre cord to a branch handle; SMB VI 24552.","function_display":"Children’s toy, swung overhead for its humming sound.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"aua","display_name":"Aua Island Schwirrholz toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAMBRUCH1908-001_smb_vi24552_aua.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAMBRUCH1908-001_smb_vi24552_aua_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long slender, slightly curved Aua Island Schwirrholz whip-mount branch, with a small cord loop tied around its lower end.","credit":"Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Peter Jacob","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://id.smb.museum/object/2398028/schwirrholz-spielzeug","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The whip-mount branch of an Aua Island Schwirrholz."},"slug":"hambruch1908-001-aua-island-durour"}