{"id":"PNG129","label":"Dom / Sinasina","people_or_site":"Dom / Sinasina","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Chimbu","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; bullroarer use","function_summary":"Used in initiation or subject to restrictions between the sexes. A subsidiary instrument in the men's cults beside the sacred flutes.","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 129; Gourlay printed p. 3 (B and source x), Table 1 printed p. 8 entry 129 (BR in B)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Sinasina district office near Kundiawa, Simbu, standing for the Dom and Sinasina; an area anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"High in the Simbu valleys of the New Guinea Highlands, among the Dom-speaking farmers of Sinasina, the bullroarer belonged to the men's cult sphere. Highland esoteric sound was above all the realm of the paired sacred flutes, blown at initiation as spirit voices; where the bullroarer occurs in these valleys it took a subsidiary part in that same hidden world — an instrument of the cults rather than of the open air.","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 and Port Moresby, 1975), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 8, entry 129","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 and Port Moresby, 1975), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 8, entry 129","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 and Port Moresby, 1975), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 8, entry 129","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Used in initiation or subject to restrictions between the sexes. A subsidiary instrument in the men's cults beside the sacred flutes.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"dom","display_name":"Dom / Sinasina","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Oc1906-1013-1452.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Oc1906-1013-1452_thumb.jpg","alt":"Cord-wound oval New Guinea bullroarer with an old accession tag.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (E/Oc1906-1013-1452)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1906-1013-1452","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Cord-wound oval New Guinea bullroarer with an old accession tag."},"slug":"png129-dom-sinasina"}