{"id":"MUS2026-323","label":"Anga trio still bound together","people_or_site":"Anga","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Papua New Guinea / Morobe Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Three Anga bullroarers of wood and plant fibre, each 240 × 12 mm, bound together as one group.","function_summary":"Not recorded for this group.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"prm_1938_36_785_1_1938_36_785_2_1938_36_785_3","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39725","page_or_plate":"1938.36.785.1; 1938.36.785.2; 1938.36.785.3","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Morobe Province regional anchor; the exact collecting place is unrecorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Anga of the Upper Watut the bullroarer is akwi-ó, and Beatrice Blackwood photographed one swung from the high seat while a boy sat waiting to have his nose pierced. Three blades out of her 1936–37 collecting arrived tied together and have stayed that way: each 24 centimetres long and 12 millimetres across, no wider than the edge of a ruler. Whoever knotted them treated the three as one thing, and the knot has outlasted everybody who could say why.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"akwi-ó: the Anga word for the bullroarer, recorded in the Upper Watut.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1938.36.785.1 / 1938.36.785.2 / 1938.36.785.3; Three 240 × 12 mm Anga bullroarers of wood and plant fibre, explicitly catalogued as bound together","url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39725","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39663"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1938.36.785.1 / 1938.36.785.2 / 1938.36.785.3; Three 240 × 12 mm Anga bullroarers of wood and plant fibre, explicitly catalogued as bound together","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1938.36.785.1 / 1938.36.785.2 / 1938.36.785.3; Three 240 × 12 mm Anga bullroarers of wood and plant fibre, explicitly catalogued as bound together","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Three Anga bullroarers of wood and plant fibre, each 240 × 12 mm, bound together as one group.","function_display":"Not recorded for this group.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"anga","display_name":"Anga trio still bound together","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39725.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39725_thumb.jpg","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1938.36.785.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39725","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Anga trio as it came in: blades still bound in their fibre wrapping.","last_modified":"2026-09-01"},"slug":"mus2026-323-anga"}