{"id":"MARKK1957-001","label":"Wantoat bullroarer pair","people_or_site":"Wantoat","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Wantoat valley, southern Finisterre Mountains, Markham District, Morobe Province","macroregion":"Oceania / New Guinea","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"Two bullroarers catalogued from Wantoat; form and material not recorded in the inventory.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"markk_58_24_11_12_wantoat","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://markk-hamburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MARKK-OZ-ab-1921.pdf","page_or_plate":"PDF p. 389, inv. 58.24:11–12","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Wantoat station (OpenStreetMap, Markham District); the inventory names Wantoat but no village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Two bullroarers from Wantoat entered the Hamburg museum in October 1957, with a small spear from the same valley. Wantoat lies on the southern fall of the Finisterre Mountains, where the Wantoat River runs down to the Markham. Its people speak Wantoat, one of the Finisterre languages, in villages such as Gwabogwat, Mamabam, Matap, Ginonga and Kupung, in dialects that shade into Wapu, Bam, Yagawak and Awara.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","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":"Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK), Hamburg, collection database extract, Ozeanien ab 1921, inv. 58.24:11–12","url":"https://markk-hamburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MARKK-OZ-ab-1921.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK), Hamburg, collection database extract, Ozeanien ab 1921, inv. 58.24:11–12","source_display":"Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK), Hamburg, collection database extract, Ozeanien ab 1921, inv. 58.24:11–12","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two bullroarers catalogued from Wantoat; form and material not recorded in the inventory.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wantoat","display_name":"Wantoat bullroarer pair","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SCHMELTZ1896-002_fig20_papan.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SCHMELTZ1896-002_fig20_papan_thumb.jpg","credit":"Schmeltz 1896, pl. fig. 20","license":"Public domain (Schmeltz 1896, Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographie IX)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/internationalesa09inte","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Papan — curved-line animal ornament on the oval blade","pool_id":"auto-SCHMELTZ1896-002_fig20_papan","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"markk1957-001-wantoat"}