{"id":"MUS2026-069","label":"Bosavi Kaluli roarer","people_or_site":"Kaluli","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Mount Bosavi, Great Papuan Pla","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Small wooden bull-roarer, 16.5 x 3 cm, of the Kaluli, Mount Bosavi; Wereldmuseum WM-74192 ('Zoemhout - gaso chi').","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"wereldmuseum","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/1123994","page_or_plate":"WM-74192","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Humming-wood — zoemhout — is what the Dutch catalogue calls this Kaluli bull-roarer from the slopes of Mount Bosavi. Few sound-worlds in New Guinea are better mapped than the Kaluli's: Steven Feld's Sound and Sentiment follows their instruments down to the sob mussel-shell rattle, the uluna jew's harp, and the hand drum heard as a bird's weeping voice. This one is small, sixteen and a half centimetres of wood, and came to Rotterdam in 1968 under a second name beside the Dutch: gaso chi.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"\"Zoemhout\" is Dutch museum cataloguing for \"bull-roarer\" (literally \"humming wood\").","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":"Wereldmuseum (NMVW), WM-74192, 'Zoemhout - gaso chi' (Kaluli, Mount Bosavi; wood, 16.5 x 3 cm; purchased 1968; documentation Th. G. Schultze-Westrum; record flagged by the museum as possibly non-validated),; Steven Feld, Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982)","url":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/1123994"}],"source_citations":"Wereldmuseum (NMVW), WM-74192, 'Zoemhout - gaso chi' (Kaluli, Mount Bosavi; wood, 16.5 x 3 cm; purchased 1968; documentation Th. G. Schultze-Westrum; record flagged by the museum as possibly non-validated),; Steven Feld, Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982)","source_display":"Wereldmuseum (NMVW), WM-74192, 'Zoemhout - gaso chi' (Kaluli, Mount Bosavi; wood, 16.5 x 3 cm; purchased 1968; documentation Th. G. Schultze-Westrum; record flagged by the museum as possibly non-validated),; Steven Feld, Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small wooden bull-roarer, 16.5 x 3 cm, of the Kaluli, Mount Bosavi; Wereldmuseum WM-74192 ('Zoemhout - gaso chi').","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kaluli","display_name":"Bosavi Kaluli roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/wereldmuseum_9.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/wereldmuseum_9_thumb.jpg","alt":"Kaluli bullroarer, Wereldmuseum WM-74192: a dark wooden blade with rounded ends and faint lengthwise marks.","credit":"Wereldmuseum / NMVW (acc. WM-74192)","license":"","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/1123994","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Kaluli bull-roarer — Wereldmuseum / NMVW (WM-74192)."},"slug":"mus2026-069-kaluli"}