{"id":"PNG173","label":"Pororan Island","people_or_site":"Pororan Island","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Bougainville","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; bullroarer use; slit-gong occurrence; slit-gong 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 173; Gourlay printed p. 3 (B and source x), Table 1 printed p. 10 entry 173 (BR in B)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"representative on-land anchor at Pororan Island (regional coordinate fell just offshore of the rendered coastline); not an exact findspot","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Pororan is a small reef island in the Buka Passage, off the west coast of Buka in northern Bougainville, home to Petats-speaking \"saltwater people\" who live by fishing and trade rather than gardening. Here the bullroarer and the slit-gong both belonged to initiation and to the secrets kept 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. 10, entry 173; Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea (Canberra, 1937), p. 372, footnote","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. 10, entry 173; Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea (Canberra, 1937), p. 372, footnote","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. 10, entry 173; Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea (Canberra, 1937), p. 372, footnote","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Used in initiation or subject to restrictions between the sexes.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pororan","display_name":"Pororan Island","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG172_png172-solos-buka-mqb-11836.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG172_png172-solos-buka-mqb-11836_thumb.jpg","alt":"A painted Solos blade from Buka Island, with a white-outlined figure, round face and outstretched limbs across its broad half.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (71.1934.188.1425)","license":"Rights reserved; museum image, no open license supplied","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/11836","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A painted Solos blade from Buka Island.","pool_id":"auto-PNG172_png172-solos-buka-mqb-11836"},"slug":"png173-pororan-island"}