{"id":"HEIDER1970-001","label":"Dugum Dani aneivu-aneivu toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Dugum Dani","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Grand Valley of the Balim River, West New Guinea / West Irian","macroregion":"Oceania / New Guinea","local_name":"aneivu-aneivu","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A boy-made chip of wood with a thin vine threaded through a hole and knotted; whirled around the head to produce a whirring sound.","function_summary":"Observed children's noise game / toy bullroarer; informants generally denied ritual significance, with one growth-making explanation.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"heider1970_dugum_dani_aneivu","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://www.papuaerfgoed.org/sites/default/files/collectie/files/2003-12/Heider_1970_Dugum.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 199, Aneivu-aneivu paragraph","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Heider places the Dugum Neighborhood in the Grand Valley of the Balim River at about 4° S, 138° 50′ E; the point uses that approximate published coordinate, not an exact findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the Dugum Dani highlands, Karl Heider watched a boy thread vine through a chip of wood, knot it, and swing it around his head until it whirred. Most informants called it a noise-game with no ritual importance; one person said it made the boy grow larger.","pull_quote":"I once observed a boy make a \"bull-roarer\" of a chip of wood at the end of a thin vine","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Heider 1970, The Dugum Dani, p. 199","term_gloss":"aneivu-aneivu: Heider glosses ane as voice/noise and ivu as imitative; aneivu was also the term used for airplane.","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,"etymology":"Heider analyses the name as ane, voice or noise, plus ivu, apparently an imitation of the noise — a reduplicated 'noise-imitator' for a boy's whirring toy. The same word aneivu had by the 1960s become the Dani term for the airplane; informants generally denied the toy any ritual significance, though one said it was to make the boy grow larger.","literal_gloss":"voice/noise + imitation of the noise","semantic_cluster":"sound; toy_or_game","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Karl G. Heider, The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 49, 1970), chapter 6 Art and Play, noneducational noise games section","url":"https://www.papuaerfgoed.org/sites/default/files/collectie/files/2003-12/Heider_1970_Dugum.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260130194532/https://www.papuaerfgoed.org/sites/default/files/collectie/files/2003-12/Heider_1970_Dugum.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Karl G. Heider, The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 49, 1970), chapter 6 Art and Play, noneducational noise games section","source_display":"Karl G. Heider, The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 49, 1970), chapter 6 Art and Play, noneducational noise games section","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A boy-made chip of wood with a thin vine threaded through a hole and knotted; whirled around the head to produce a whirring sound.","function_display":"Observed children's noise game / toy bullroarer; informants generally denied ritual significance, with one growth-making explanation.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"dugum dani","display_name":"Dugum Dani aneivu-aneivu toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HEIDER1970-001_wereldmuseum_tm2834_54.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HEIDER1970-001_wereldmuseum_tm2834_54_thumb.jpg","alt":"A dark wooden New Guinea bromhout with a pierced crescent-shaped tail, pointed opposite tip and fine incised figures and bands.","credit":"Collectie Wereldmuseum (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen), TM-2834-54, via Wikimedia Commons","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collectie_Wereldmuseum,_TM-2834-54,_Snorrebot,_'Bromhout_met_versiering',_voor_1959.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A decorated bull-roarer (bromhout) from the Netherlands New Guinea."},"slug":"heider1970-001-dugum-dani"}