{"id":"PNG32","label":"Serang","people_or_site":"Serang","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Madang","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; sacred flute 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 32","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"representative on-land anchor at Serang (regional coordinate fell just offshore of the rendered coastline); not an exact findspot","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Serang is a coastal village in Madang Province whose people speak Takia, an Austronesian language that has been structurally remade on the grammar of the neighboring Papuan language Waskia. The village kept a bullroarer, alongside a sacred flute and a slit-gong; what the bullroarer was for at Serang, no one says.","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 32","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 32","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 32","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"serang","display_name":"Serang","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared_biro1901_tafel21_astrolabe.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared_biro1901_tafel21_astrolabe_thumb.jpg","alt":"Printed plate of twenty numbered Astrolabe Bay Schwirrbretter and love-charm slats, carved with geometric patterns; eighteen stand upright and two lie horizontally below.","credit":"L. Bíró, Beschreibender Catalog der ethnographischen Sammlung (Astrolabe Bay), Ung. Nationalmuseum (1901), Tafel XXI — UB Frankfurt, DSDK","license":"Public domain","source_page":"https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/i3f/v20/9377418/manifest","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Twenty carved Astrolabe Bay Schwirrbretter and love-charm slats."},"slug":"png32-serang"}