{"id":"PNG123","label":"Maipka","people_or_site":"Maipka","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Western Highlands","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; bullroarer use; sacred flute occurrence; sacred flute use","function_summary":"Used in initiation or subject to restrictions between the sexes.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"gourlay1975_sound_producing","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000082089644","page_or_plate":"Table 1, row 123; Gourlay printed p. 3 (B and source x), Table 1 printed p. 8 entry 123 (BR in B)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Kol, north of the Wahgi valley (GeoNames 2093674), standing for the Maipka; an area anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Maipka — the place now called Kol Station, in the Jimi Valley, then administered as part of the Western Highlands — both the bullroarer and the men's sacred flute were in use: paired voices of a men's ceremonial world, bound up with initiation and the rules that kept the sexes apart.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"K. A. Gourlay, Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society: A Study of Esoteric Instruments and Their Role in Male-Female Relations, New Guinea Research Bulletin 60 (Canberra, 1975), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 8, entry 123","url":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000082089644"}],"source_citations":"K. A. Gourlay, Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society: A Study of Esoteric Instruments and Their Role in Male-Female Relations, New Guinea Research Bulletin 60 (Canberra, 1975), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 8, entry 123","source_display":"K. A. Gourlay, Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society: A Study of Esoteric Instruments and Their Role in Male-Female Relations, New Guinea Research Bulletin 60 (Canberra, 1975), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 8, entry 123","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Used in initiation or subject to restrictions between the sexes.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"maipka","display_name":"Maipka","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Oc1906-1013-54.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Oc1906-1013-54_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, tapering wooden blade with fine incised triangles near the pierced end.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (E/Oc1906-1013-54)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1906-1013-54","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A long, tapering wooden blade with fine incised triangles near the pierced end."},"slug":"png123-maipka"}