{"id":"MUS2026-145","label":"Pulo Anna (Pur) zorien bullroarer","people_or_site":"Pur / Pulo Anna, Sonsorol State","country_current":"Palau","historic_region":"Southwest Islands / Pulo Anna (Pur), Sonsorol State","macroregion":"Oceania / Micronesia","local_name":"zorien","source_term":"bull roarer","source_language":"English translation (German original)","object_description":"Bullroarer named zorien; construction is not described.","function_summary":"Specific use is not recorded.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"EILERS1935_PUR_ZORIEN","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://tekinged.com/misc/pdf.php?file=kraemer6","page_or_plate":"Pur p. 221 (2017 English translation)","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Pulo Anna island centroid (Pur/Puro in the source); tiny island, not an exact performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Pulo Anna — Pur in the old German South Seas Expedition record — is a speck of an island in Palau’s remote Southwest chain, days of open water from the main archipelago. When the expedition worked up Ernst Sarfert’s 1909 field notes, it preserved a single word of the island’s sound-world: zorien, the bull-roarer. That one gloss is the whole record — nothing on the wood, the cord, the occasion, or who was allowed to swing it — but it is enough to place the instrument in one of the smallest and most isolated communities in the Pacific.","pull_quote":"They use the word zorien for the bull roarer.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Eilers, West Carolines, vol. 1: Pur, p. 221 (2017 English translation).","term_gloss":"zorien - Pur/Pulo Anna word explicitly glossed as bullroarer; no further gloss or object description is supplied.","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":"Anneliese Eilers, West Carolines, vol. 1: Palau - Songosor, Pur (1935), Pur p. 221; 2017 English translation; The Pur section preserves Ernst Sarfert's 1909 field records","url":"https://tekinged.com/misc/pdf.php?file=kraemer6","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240425055234/https://tekinged.com/misc/pdf.php?file=kraemer6"}],"source_citations":"Anneliese Eilers, West Carolines, vol. 1: Palau - Songosor, Pur (1935), Pur p. 221; 2017 English translation; The Pur section preserves Ernst Sarfert's 1909 field records","source_display":"Anneliese Eilers, West Carolines, vol. 1: Palau - Songosor, Pur (1935), Pur p. 221; 2017 English translation; The Pur section preserves Ernst Sarfert's 1909 field records","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer named zorien; construction is not described.","function_display":"Specific use is not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pur","display_name":"Pulo Anna (Pur) zorien bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-023.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-023_thumb.jpg","alt":"A dark-brown spatulate Masingara bullroarer with a broad rounded blade, narrow neck and long cord looped from its end.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum, Oc1906,1013.152.a","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1906-1013-152-a","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Masingara bullroarer from western New Guinea.","pool_id":"new-guinea-bm"},"slug":"mus2026-145-pur-pulo-anna-sonsorol-state"}