{"id":"MUS2026-355","label":"Umeretengteng twin Schwirrhölzer","people_or_site":"People unrecorded; Umeretengteng community","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Umeretengteng / 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 Umeretengteng in West New Britain on 9 December 1908; material, dimensions, cord and form are not published.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"markk_1311i_1312i_umeretengteng","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. 162–163","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Itinerary anchor: the same Rein Bay coast as Mongemonge, collected by Fülleborn two days earlier; Umeretengteng itself is unlocated in any public source.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On 9 December 1908, two days after collecting a pair of roarers at Mongemonge, east of Rein Bay, Friedrich Fülleborn of the Hamburg South Seas Expedition logged two more at a village called Umeretengteng. The name has since dropped out of the published record of West New Britain — no map, no ethnography, no second mention. What came in beside the pair says more than the place-name does: spears, a mask helmet, net floats, dance headdresses and a sling — fishing, dance and hunting gathered under a village that can no longer be found, and under no people's name at all.","pull_quote":"Schwirrholz … Dorf Umeretengteng","pull_quote_translation":"Bullroarer / whirring wood … village of Umeretengteng.","pull_quote_cite":"MARKK Hamburg South Seas Expedition collection list, PDF pp. 162–163, inventories 1311 I and 1312 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 1311 I and 1312 I: two Schwirrholz from Umeretengteng, collected by Friedrich Fülleborn on 9 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 1311 I and 1312 I: two Schwirrholz from Umeretengteng, collected by Friedrich Fülleborn on 9 December 1908","source_display":"MARKK 1311 I and 1312 I: two Schwirrholz from Umeretengteng, collected by Friedrich Fülleborn on 9 December 1908","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two separately inventoried objects catalogued as Schwirrholz, collected at Umeretengteng in West New Britain on 9 December 1908; material, dimensions, cord and form are not published.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"","display_name":"Umeretengteng 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":"mus2026-355-people-unrecorded-umeretengteng-community"}