{"id":"PNG160","label":"Nalik","people_or_site":"Nalik","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"New Ireland","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; slit-gong occurrence","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 160","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Nalik country on the east coast of northern New Ireland, at Nalik Plantation; an area anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Nalik of northern New Ireland knew both the bullroarer and the slit-gong. The Nalik are far better documented for their malagan mortuary carvings, the word itself a Nalik one, than for any bullroarer rite.","pull_quote":"New Ireland is likewise largely unknown. While the slit-gong is reported by all informants, its lack of esoteric significance, except for a small minority, makes the area tentatively negative.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Gourlay 1975, Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society (New Guinea Research Bulletin 60): region J, New Ireland","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 160","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 160","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 160","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"nalik","display_name":"Nalik","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/deep_7.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/deep_7_thumb.jpg","alt":"Long gray-brown Middle Sepik bullroarer carved with a central animal motif and small animal heads at both ends.","credit":"Ethnologisches Museum (VI 48045)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA","source_page":"https://nat.museum-digital.de/object/531003","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A similarly carved New Guinea bull-roarer with a small animal head."},"slug":"png160-nalik"}