{"id":"PNG144","label":"Baluan Island","people_or_site":"Baluan Island","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Manus","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; 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 144; regional discussion p. 17; Fig. 2 culture-area map","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Baluan Island, south of Manus (GeoNames 2099976).","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Baluan, the southernmost island of the Admiralty group in Manus Province, is known above all for the garamut, the slit-gong hollowed from a single log and beaten to carry messages and drive dances; the rapid, complex garamut playing of Baluan is comparatively highly developed. The bullroarer is the quieter presence: known on Baluan, but never described in use.","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 144, p. 17 and fig. 2","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 144, p. 17 and fig. 2","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 144, p. 17 and fig. 2","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"baluan","display_name":"Baluan Island","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":"Manus-area bullroarer from Papua New Guinea.","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--bm_E_Oc1906-1013-1453"},"slug":"png144-baluan-island"}