{"id":"PNG155","label":"Mengen","people_or_site":"Mengen","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"East New Britain","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 155; Gourlay printed p. 3 (B and source x), Table 1 printed p. 9 entry 155 (BR in B)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Pomio district point, East New Britain (GeoNames 2088199), standing for the Mengen; an area anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Mengen of New Britain's Pomio coast, both the whirled bullroarer and the paired sacred flutes were kept and sounded — the very instruments that, across Melanesia, men reserve for ceremonies screened from women and children. What the Mengen called them, and the rite they built around them, went unrecorded; only this much survives: both instruments, kept for initiation and screened between the sexes.","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. 9, entry 155","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. 9, entry 155","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. 9, entry 155","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":"mengen","display_name":"Mengen","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/deep_20.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/deep_20_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long dark wooden blade with narrow incised lines and a band of geometric carving near one end, displayed above a ruler.","credit":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Etnografisk) (UEM32393)","license":"CC BY-SA","source_page":"https://api.dimu.org/artifact/uuid/5f623a02-c601-4044-9ebb-e04f56d2ffc5","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A long dark bull-roarer blade."},"slug":"png155-mengen"}