{"id":"MUS2026-354","label":"Mongemonge twin Schwirrhölzer","people_or_site":"People unrecorded; Mongemonge community","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Mongemonge, east of Rein Bay / West New Britain","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"Two separately inventoried objects catalogued as Schwirrholz, collected at Mongemonge east of Rein Bay on the north coast of West New Britain; material, dimensions, cord and form are not published.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"markk_1291i_1292i_mongemonge","source_type":"museum_collection_list","source_url":"https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/06/MARKK-OZ-S%C3%BCdseeexpedition.pdf","page_or_plate":"PDF pp. 159–160","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Coast immediately east of Rein Bay, north shore of West New Britain, following MARKK's 'im Osten der Reinbucht'; Rein Bay placed from the 1943 US Army provisional map sheet B55/8 (ANU copy) checked against the OSM Iboki fix. Not an identified modern village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Two roarers, inventoried one after the other, came off the north coast of West New Britain on 7 December 1908, when Friedrich Fülleborn's party of the Hamburg South Seas Expedition called at Mongemonge, east of Rein Bay. Both carry the same German word, Schwirrholz — whirring wood — the same village and the same day; the space for the people who made them was left empty. Around them in the consignment lie fish-shaped net floats, a drum, taro tools and combs: a coast recorded through its work and its sound.","pull_quote":"Schwirrholz … Dorf Mongemonge (im Osten der Reinbucht)","pull_quote_translation":"Bullroarer / whirring wood … village of Mongemonge (east of Rein Bay).","pull_quote_cite":"MARKK Hamburg South Seas Expedition collection list, PDF pp. 159–160, inventories 1291 I and 1292 I.","term_gloss":"Schwirrholz (German): literally “whirring wood”; the historic catalog designation.","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":"MARKK 1291 I and 1292 I: two Schwirrholz from Mongemonge east of Rein Bay, collected by Friedrich Fülleborn on 7 December 1908","url":"https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/06/MARKK-OZ-S%C3%BCdseeexpedition.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260517153126/https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/06/MARKK-OZ-S%C3%BCdseeexpedition.pdf"}],"source_citations":"MARKK 1291 I and 1292 I: two Schwirrholz from Mongemonge east of Rein Bay, collected by Friedrich Fülleborn on 7 December 1908","source_display":"MARKK 1291 I and 1292 I: two Schwirrholz from Mongemonge east of Rein Bay, collected by Friedrich Fülleborn on 7 December 1908","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two separately inventoried objects catalogued as Schwirrholz, collected at Mongemonge east of Rein Bay on the north coast of West New Britain; material, dimensions, cord and form are not published.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"","display_name":"Mongemonge twin Schwirrhölzer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG148_prm_1938_36_1316.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG148_prm_1938_36_1316_thumb.jpg","alt":"Arawe Pagiwar bullroarer from Kandrian, southwest New Britain: a long narrow wooden blade with attached cord looping across and beside it.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1938.36.1316 (Beatrice Blackwood collection)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-43109","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Arawe Pagiwar bullroarer from Kandrian, southwest New Britain, with its cord attached.","last_modified":"2026-09-06"},"slug":"mus2026-354-people-unrecorded-mongemonge-community"}