{"id":"MUS2026-391","label":"Wannfalli, cross-headed spirit voice","people_or_site":"Kwotmagum village (south of Maprik)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Kwotmagum (Kwatmagum), south of Maprik, East Sepik Province","macroregion":"Oceania / New Guinea","local_name":"wannfalli","source_term":"Schwirrholz wannfalli","source_language":"German","object_description":"A 30.8 cm lance-shaped palm-wood blade whose upper end was cut as a cross; one arm has broken off, and the cord hole sits at the break (MKB Vb 13681).","function_summary":"Said to serve for producing the voices of spirits.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mkb_vb_13681_kwotmagum","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/","page_or_plate":"MKB Vb 13681 (inventory card); Bestandesliste 2022 PDF p. 1462","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Kwatmagum (GeoNames PPL), the gazetteer spelling of the card's Kwotmagum, south of Maprik.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Wannfalli was made to give the spirits their voices. It is a small lance of palm wood, barely thirty centimetres long, whose upper end was cut in the shape of a cross; one arm of the cross has snapped off, and the hole for the cord was bored where it broke. The Basel expedition of 1955 and 1956 brought it from Kwotmagum, a village in the hills south of Maprik, with its name written down beside it.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"wannfalli - the local name recorded for this bullroarer at Kwotmagum.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, Vb 13681, Schwirrholz \"wannfalli\", Kwotmagum, coll. Alfred Bühler","url":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261014144522/https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/"},{"citation":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, Bestandesliste Vb Melanesien (2022), Vb 13681","url":"https://www.mkb.ch/docroot/pdf/MKB-Bestandesliste-Vb-Melanesien_2022_234-MB.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240407015638/https://www.mkb.ch/docroot/pdf/MKB-Bestandesliste-Vb-Melanesien_2022_234-MB.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, Vb 13681, Schwirrholz \"wannfalli\", Kwotmagum, coll. Alfred Bühler; Museum der Kulturen Basel, Bestandesliste Vb Melanesien (2022), Vb 13681","source_display":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, Vb 13681, Schwirrholz \"wannfalli\", Kwotmagum, coll. Alfred Bühler; Museum der Kulturen Basel, Bestandesliste Vb Melanesien (2022), Vb 13681","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A 30.8 cm lance-shaped palm-wood blade whose upper end was cut as a cross; one arm has broken off, and the cord hole sits at the break (MKB Vb 13681).","function_display":"Said to serve for producing the voices of spirits.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kwotmagum","display_name":"Wannfalli, cross-headed spirit voice","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG10_smb_vi48559.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG10_smb_vi48559_thumb.jpg","alt":"The ulke-maira made by Tarigo at Kalabu I in 1965: a long dark palmwood blade, its middle wound with many turns of plant-fibre cord and a short tie at one end.","credit":"Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (VI 48559), made by Tarigo, Kalabu I, coll. Gerd Koch 1965","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://id.smb.museum/object/2025365","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"An Abelam ulke-maira from near Maprik, bound with plant fibre.","pool_id":"auto-PNG10_smb_vi48559"},"slug":"mus2026-391-kwotmagum-village-south-of-maprik"}