{"id":"MUS2026-092","label":"Furtedjuwi, the roarer women cannot see","people_or_site":"Kapriman","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Sepik (Kambaramba), East Sepik","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"Furtedjuwi","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"French","object_description":"Kapriman rhombe from Kambaramba, local name Furtedjuwi (Quai Branly 71.1961.103.342.1-2).","function_summary":"Kept in the Tambaran houses and brought out for the scarification initiation of young boys; women cannot see it.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"europe_direct","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1961.103.342.1-2","page_or_plate":"object record 271699 (Quai Branly API)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Swing it on its cord and the wood howls — and among the Kapriman, forest people of the Korewori and Blackwater rivers of the Middle Sepik, that howl is a men's secret no woman may set eyes on. This bullroarer even carries its own name, Furtedjuwi. The Kapriman are known for their paired spirit-masks and spindly hook-figures, yet the rhombe holds the plainest law of the men's house, recorded flatly by the collectors who took it to Paris: women cannot see it.","pull_quote":"Les femmes ne peuvent le voir.","pull_quote_translation":"Women cannot see it.","pull_quote_cite":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1961.103.342.1-2","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1961.103.342.1-2 (Kapriman rhombe, Furtedjuwi)","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1961.103.342.1-2","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013130041/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1961.103.342.1-2"}],"source_citations":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1961.103.342.1-2 (Kapriman rhombe, Furtedjuwi)","source_display":"Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 71.1961.103.342.1-2 (Kapriman rhombe, Furtedjuwi)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Kapriman rhombe from Kambaramba, local name Furtedjuwi (Quai Branly 71.1961.103.342.1-2).","function_display":"Kept in the Tambaran houses and brought out for the scarification initiation of young boys; women cannot see it.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kapriman","display_name":"Furtedjuwi, the roarer women cannot see","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-092_mus2026-092-kapriman-furtedjuwi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-092_mus2026-092-kapriman-furtedjuwi_thumb.jpg","alt":"Furtedjuwi bullroarer from Kapriman, Kambaramba: a smooth brown blade with a tapered rounded tip, arrow-shaped shoulders and cord tied through a hole at the opposite end.","credit":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1961.103.342.1-2","license":"Rights reserved (© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac); rehosted for non-commercial research; cropped and rotated","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/271699","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Furtedjuwi bullroarer, Kapriman, Kambaramba; before 1934."},"slug":"mus2026-092-kapriman"}