{"id":"MUS2026-128","label":"Kubka (Kubkin) Upper Sepik bullroarer, Yale Peabody","people_or_site":"Kubka (Kubkin) / Upper Sepik","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"East Sepik / Leonard Schultze (Walio) River / Kubka-Kubkain vicinity","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Thin, slightly curved ellipsoid wooden bullroarer, 40 × 5.5 cm; one end divides into two points around the suspension notch, and one face bears painted relief carving of sawteeth, diamonds, and dots. Yale Peabody Museum YPM ANT 250128.","function_summary":"Use not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"YPM_ANT_250128","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://peabody.collections.yale.edu/data/object/0a698a90-086b-4207-a2a6-cd7f888e67d1","page_or_plate":"YPM ANT 250128; Yale IIIF manifest 243655; Bragge Part II, ch. 41, pp. 371-372","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Kubka/Kubkain, East Sepik (GeoNames 2093269). Yale spells the village Kubkin and queries it as a Kubka variant near the Leonard Schultze River mouth; Bragge independently identifies Kubka/Kupka as Kubkain and the Walio as the Leonard Schultze River.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Sawteeth, diamonds, and dots run across this forty-centimetre wooden bullroarer from Kubkin on the Upper Sepik. The thin blade divides at its suspension end into two small points, turning the cord notch into part of the design; traces of paint still sharpen the carved relief.","pull_quote":"Ellipsoid shaped bullroarer carved from thin, slightly carved wood. One end notched, forming two points.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Yale Peabody Museum, YPM ANT 250128, object description.","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":"Yale Peabody Museum, YPM ANT 250128 (Kubkin, Leonard Schultze River, Upper Sepik); Laurie Bragge, Sepik Pre-History, Part II, ch. 41, pp. 371-372","url":"https://peabody.collections.yale.edu/data/object/0a698a90-086b-4207-a2a6-cd7f888e67d1","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013021358/https://peabody.collections.yale.edu/data/object/0a698a90-086b-4207-a2a6-cd7f888e67d1"}],"source_citations":"Yale Peabody Museum, YPM ANT 250128 (Kubkin, Leonard Schultze River, Upper Sepik); Laurie Bragge, Sepik Pre-History, Part II, ch. 41, pp. 371-372","source_display":"Yale Peabody Museum, YPM ANT 250128 (Kubkin, Leonard Schultze River, Upper Sepik); Laurie Bragge, Sepik Pre-History, Part II, ch. 41, pp. 371-372","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thin, slightly curved ellipsoid wooden bullroarer, 40 × 5.5 cm; one end divides into two points around the suspension notch, and one face bears painted relief carving of sawteeth, diamonds, and dots. Yale Peabody Museum YPM ANT 250128.","function_display":"Use not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kubka","display_name":"Kubka (Kubkin) Upper Sepik bullroarer, Yale Peabody","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-128_ypm_ant_250128_kubka.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-128_ypm_ant_250128_kubka_thumb.jpg","credit":"Yale Peabody Museum, YPM ANT 250128","license":"CC0","source_page":"https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-ANT-250128","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Kubka bullroarer carved with white zigzag borders and a central row of dotted diamonds."},"slug":"mus2026-128-kubka-museum-spelling-kubkin-upper-sepik"}