{"id":"MINE2026-082","label":"Miau Baru Kayan buluq laluq wind bullroarer","people_or_site":"Kayan Umaq Lekan, Miau Baru","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Miau Baru, Kongbeng, East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Borneo","local_name":"buluq laluq","source_term":"bull roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wind-driven bullroarer named buluq laluq.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"MACEDA1978_MIAU_BARU_BULUQ_LALUQ","source_type":"ethnomusicology_field_report","source_url":"https://borneoresearchcouncil.org/s/BRB_1978_10_02.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 93 (PDF p. 21)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Miau Baru village coordinate; Maceda names the community, not an individual performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Maceda heard about the buluq laluq at Miau Baru, a village founded in 1961 by Kayan Umaq Lekan migrants who had come down from the upper rivers, thirteen hundred people strong by his 1977 music workshop. His informants described it as a bullroarer of their own that the wind itself set going — listed apart from the pull-string clapper that guarded the rice fields, though no one played one for him. What the blade looked like, nobody recorded.","pull_quote":"buluq laluq, a bull roarer agitated by the wind.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"José Maceda, 'Report of a Music Workshop in East Kalimantan', Borneo Research Bulletin 10(2) (1978), p. 93.","term_gloss":"buluq laluq: the Kayan Umaq Lekan name for the wind bullroarer.","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":"José Maceda, 'Report of a Music Workshop in East Kalimantan,' Borneo Research Bulletin 10(2) (1978), p. 93","url":"https://borneoresearchcouncil.org/s/BRB_1978_10_02.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20231217011817/https://borneoresearchcouncil.org/s/BRB_1978_10_02.pdf"}],"source_citations":"José Maceda, 'Report of a Music Workshop in East Kalimantan,' Borneo Research Bulletin 10(2) (1978), p. 93","source_display":"José Maceda, 'Report of a Music Workshop in East Kalimantan,' Borneo Research Bulletin 10(2) (1978), p. 93","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wind-driven bullroarer named buluq laluq.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kayan umaq","display_name":"Miau Baru Kayan buluq laluq wind bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SEA-001_peabody_08-36-70_74328.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SEA-001_peabody_08-36-70_74328_thumb.jpg","alt":"Two Ifugao wooden bullroarer sticks lie parallel, each with a braided plant-fiber cord; the upper blade carries chevrons and dots.","credit":"Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (08-36-70/74328)","license":"No open license stated (Peabody Museum online image) — rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/89009/bull-roarer","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Two Ifugao bullroarer sticks from the Peabody Museum","pool_id":"auto-SEA-001_peabody_08-36-70_74328","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"mine2026-082-kayan-umaq-lekan-miau-baru"}