{"id":"PNG31","label":"Barag burned with its cult house","people_or_site":"Karkar Island (incl. Karkar-Takia, Karkar Waskia & Gubardau Takia)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Madang","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 31; Gourlay printed p. 3 (B and source x), Table 1 printed p. 6 entry 31 (BR in B)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Karkar Island, Madang (GeoNames 2094547).","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Swung in the dark, the bullroarer was one of the secret voices of Karkar's men — sound that Kulbob, the island's creator-hero, was said to have carried along the coast when he handed down his people, their dances, and their men's cult, Barag. Barag's sacred objects were kept from every woman's eyes. Then, in 1921, the Takia villages of the volcanic island's south coast turned Christian all at once: they staged one last Barag, carried the hidden things into the open, and burned them along with the cult house.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"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), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 6, entry 31","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), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 6, entry 31","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), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 6, entry 31","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":"karkar incl","display_name":"Barag burned with its cult house","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG25_bremen_D09870_png.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG25_bremen_D09870_png_thumb.jpg","alt":"A carved New Guinea bullroarer from the Madang coast: geometric bands and a single eye-like motif near its notched end, with most of the long blade plain.","credit":"Übersee-Museum Bremen (D09870), coll. Kapitän Rohde","license":"CC BY-SA (Übersee-Museum Bremen)","source_page":"https://nat.museum-digital.de/object/1583246","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A carved New Guinea bull-roarer from the Madang coast."},"slug":"png31-karkar-island-incl-karkar-takia-karkar-waskia-gubardau-takia"}