{"id":"HAYS1986-007","label":"Yagwoia roarer for boys and dogs","people_or_site":"Yagwoia / Yagqoia (Kokwaiyakwa)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Angan language region","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A bullroarer revealed to Yagwoia novices in first-stage initiation and also swung to excite hunting dogs; no size, form or local name is recorded.","function_summary":"Ritually revealed to boys in first-stage initiation, and sounded outside ceremony to excite dogs for hunting.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"hays1986_sacred_flutes","source_type":"scholarly_article","source_url":"https://digitalcollections.ric.edu/record/1736/files/Sacred_Flutes2.pdf","page_or_plate":"pp. 436, 443–444","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Glottolog Yagwoia language anchor; not a performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Angan speakers on the southeastern margin of the Highlands, the Yagwoia gave the bullroarer two lives. In first-stage initiation — held for boys of six to fifteen, and turning on nose-bleeding and instruction in the fellation of bachelors — it was the only instrument actually revealed: the flutes had already been played openly at the ceremony's start, so the roarer alone still held a secret worth disclosing. Away from ceremony it was working equipment, swung to excite the dogs for a hunt. Hays drew both facts from Jadran Mimica's Yagwoia fieldwork.","pull_quote":"In the latter only the bullroarer was actually revealed ritually, flutes having been played \"publicly\" at the onset of the ceremony","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Hays 1986:444 (Anthropos 81), citing Mimica 1981:61","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Hays 1986 table p. 436; discussion pp. 443–444, citing Mimica 1981:52–53, 61, 74","url":"https://digitalcollections.ric.edu/record/1736/files/Sacred_Flutes2.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250526055207/https://digitalcollections.ric.edu/record/1736/files/Sacred_Flutes2.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Hays 1986 table p. 436; discussion pp. 443–444, citing Mimica 1981:52–53, 61, 74","source_display":"Hays 1986 table p. 436; discussion pp. 443–444, citing Mimica 1981:52–53, 61, 74","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer revealed to Yagwoia novices in first-stage initiation and also swung to excite hunting dogs; no size, form or local name is recorded.","function_display":"Ritually revealed to boys in first-stage initiation, and sounded outside ceremony to excite dogs for hunting.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"yagwoia","display_name":"Yagwoia roarer for boys and dogs","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_217166.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_217166_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Upper Watut Anga bullroarer, a dark wooden blade with bark-fibre cord wound around it and Blackwood’s 1937 tag attached.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 2006.87.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-217166","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Anga bullroarer with bark-fibre cord, collected on the Upper Watut in 1937.","pool_id":"auto-prm--prm_217166","last_modified":"2026-09-06"},"slug":"hays1986-007-yagwoia-yagqoia-kokwaiyakwa"}