{"id":"LAWRIE1971-001","label":"Dauan madub of ubar wood","people_or_site":"Dauan Islanders","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Dauan (Mount Cornwallis Island), top western Torres Strait, Queensland","macroregion":"Oceania / Torres Strait","local_name":"madub","source_term":"Madub (bullroarer)","source_language":"English; Kalaw Kawaw Ya terms","object_description":"A long, round-ended wooden blade on a cord of two twisted strands, tied to a short wooden handle; blade and handle of ubar wood, cord of bail fibre. Drawn life-size.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"lawrie_tr1791_225_dauan_madub","source_type":"linguistic_manuscript","source_url":"https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/guide/tr-1791/details","page_or_plate":"TR 1791/225; FL3415782","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Dauan Island (OpenStreetMap); island-level attestation.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Blade and handle alike were cut from ubar wood, and the cord was two strands of bail fibre twisted together. On Dauan, the high island off the New Guinea coast that sailors named Mount Cornwallis, the madub was held by its little wooden handle in the left hand; the right hand took the string about halfway along, and the long, round-ended blade was sent swinging fast in circles above the player's head. A life-size drawing of one, cord and all, was made on Dauan on 8 September 1971.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"madub: bullroarer (Dauan). ubar: the wood of blade and handle. bail: the plant fibre of the cord.","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":"State Library of Queensland, Margaret Lawrie Collection, TR 1791/225, \"Madub (bullroarer)\", Dauan, 8 September 1971","url":"https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/guide/tr-1791/details"},{"citation":"Digitised drawing, SLQ viewer IE3415590","url":"https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE3415590"}],"source_citations":"State Library of Queensland, Margaret Lawrie Collection, TR 1791/225, \"Madub (bullroarer)\", Dauan, 8 September 1971; Digitised drawing, SLQ viewer IE3415590","source_display":"State Library of Queensland, Margaret Lawrie Collection, TR 1791/225, \"Madub (bullroarer)\", Dauan, 8 September 1971; Digitised drawing, SLQ viewer IE3415590","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A long, round-ended wooden blade on a cord of two twisted strands, tied to a short wooden handle; blade and handle of ubar wood, cord of bail fibre. Drawn life-size.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"dauan","display_name":"Dauan madub of ubar wood","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LAWRIE1971-001_slq_lawrie_madub_dauan.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LAWRIE1971-001_slq_lawrie_madub_dauan_thumb.jpg","alt":"Pencil drawing of a long rounded bullroarer blade on a looping cord tied to a short handle, with handwritten notes.","credit":"State Library of Queensland, Margaret Lawrie Collection, TR 1791/225","source_page":"https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE3415590","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Madub drawn life-size on Dauan, 8 September 1971: ubar-wood blade and handle, twisted bail-fibre cord. Margaret Lawrie Collection, SLQ.","last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"lawrie1971-001-dauan-islanders"}