{"id":"PNG143","label":"Titans (incl. M'bunai, Rambutyo Island & Mouk)","people_or_site":"Titans (incl. M'bunai, Rambutyo Island & Mouk)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Manus","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; sacred flute occurrence; sacred flute use; slit-gong occurrence; slit-gong use","function_summary":"Not recorded.","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 143","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Titan language-area point on the south coast of Manus (Glottolog), standing for the Titan cluster of M'bunai, Rambutyo and Mouk; an area anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the sea-dwelling Manus of M'bunai, Rambutyo, and Mouk, the bullroarer took its place beside sacred flutes and slit-gongs, its purpose unspoken. What Reo Fortune set down instead, living among these Titan villagers, was the power that truly ruled them: Sir Ghost, the skull of the household's last dead man, kept above the doorway, watching his kin for every theft, lie, and sexual lapse and striking them sick when he found one. The whirled wood keeps its silence; the dead father kept none.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","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":"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), Table 1, entry 143","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), Table 1, entry 143","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), Table 1, entry 143","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"titans incl","display_name":"Titans (incl. M'bunai, Rambutyo Island & Mouk)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Oc1906-1013-1453.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Oc1906-1013-1453_thumb.jpg","alt":"A plain, unengraved New Guinea bull-roarer blade with two holes near its rounded end.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (E/Oc1906-1013-1453)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1906-1013-1453","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A plain, unengraved New Guinea bull-roarer blade with two small holes."},"slug":"png143-titans-incl-m-bunai-rambutyo-island-mouk"}