{"id":"KUNST1931-001","label":"Mombum / Komolom Island bullroarer","people_or_site":"Mombum (Komolom Island)","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Komolom Island (south of Yos Sudarso / Kolepom)","macroregion":"Oceania / New Guinea","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarers","source_language":"English translation; German source chain","object_description":"Bullroarer reported from Komolom Island; construction not recorded.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"kunst1950_komolom","source_type":"secondary_literature","source_url":"https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004286832/BP000004.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 173; footnote 220","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Pulau Komolom island centroid; source reports island-level occurrence and Mombum comprised a single village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"One island, one village, one people: Komolom, off New Guinea's south coast, held a single community, the Mombum, 308 strong in 1936 and 210 in 1948. Their language is not Marind, yet they had shaped their life on the model of their Marind-anim neighbours: alone among the island peoples the Marind raided for heads, they were spared, took part in the Marind mayo cult, and kept up friendly relations with Wamal. The bullroarer sounded among them too, on a low swamp island between the mouth of the Digul and the sea.","pull_quote":"Bullroarers … do occur on Komolom Island and Frederick Hendrik Island and also on the upper Digul.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Jaap Kunst, The Native Music of Western New Guinea (1950), p. 173.","term_gloss":"","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":"Jaap Kunst, 'The Native Music of Western New Guinea' (1950), in Music in New Guinea: Three Studies (Verhandelingen KITLV 53, 1967), p. 173 and n. 220, citing Wirz, Die Marind-anim, vol. III, p. 46; J. van Baal, Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (The Hague, 1966), p. 16 (Mombum population 1936/1948, non-Marind language, mayo-cult participation, relations with Wamal, exemption from Marind headhunting)","url":"https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004286832/BP000004.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251206005258/https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004286832/BP000004.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Jaap Kunst, 'The Native Music of Western New Guinea' (1950), in Music in New Guinea: Three Studies (Verhandelingen KITLV 53, 1967), p. 173 and n. 220, citing Wirz, Die Marind-anim, vol. III, p. 46; J. van Baal, Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (The Hague, 1966), p. 16 (Mombum population 1936/1948, non-Marind language, mayo-cult participation, relations with Wamal, exemption from Marind headhunting)","source_display":"Jaap Kunst, 'The Native Music of Western New Guinea' (1950), in Music in New Guinea: Three Studies (Verhandelingen KITLV 53, 1967), p. 173 and n. 220, citing Wirz, Die Marind-anim, vol. III, p. 46; J. van Baal, Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (The Hague, 1966), p. 16 (Mombum population 1936/1948, non-Marind language, mayo-cult…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer reported from Komolom Island; construction not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mombum","display_name":"Mombum / Komolom Island bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/KUNST1931-001_kunst1931-001-marind-kunst-fig32.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/KUNST1931-001_kunst1931-001-marind-kunst-fig32_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, narrow Marind sosom blade from South Papua, tapering at both ends and marked with repeated geometric bands (Kunst ill. 32).","credit":"Royal Tropical Institute, 520/74; Jaap Kunst, Music in New Guinea (1967), illustration 32 (1950 original photo)","license":"Rights reserved (Indisch Instituut photo archive / publisher); rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/gdc/gdcebookspublic/20/20/71/65/30/2020716530/2020716530.pdf#page=203","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Marind sosom, South Papua, Kunst ill. 32."},"slug":"kunst1931-001-mombum-komolom-island"}