{"id":"PNG48","label":"Hube","people_or_site":"Hube","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Morobe","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"gourlay1975_sound_producing","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000804204","page_or_plate":"Bd. 1, p. 259, fig. 173h","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Kube (Hube) language-area point in the Huon Peninsula hinterland, Morobe (Glottolog); an area anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Hube are an Eastern Huon people of the Morobe interior, scattered through the Mongi and Kua river valleys behind the Huon Peninsula coast. Their bullroarer survives as a picture in Richard Neuhauss's 1911 Deutsch Neu-Guinea: a slender spindle of a blade, pierced and fork-tipped at one end. On the coast nearby, the Yabim and Bukaua tied an identical instrument to the swallowing-monster of male initiation and called it balum, the voice of an ancestral ghost.","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":"Richard Neuhauss, Deutsch Neu-Guinea, vol. I (Berlin: Reimer, 1911), p. 259, fig. 173h; 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 48","url":"https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000804204","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240724165807/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000804204"}],"source_citations":"Richard Neuhauss, Deutsch Neu-Guinea, vol. I (Berlin: Reimer, 1911), p. 259, fig. 173h; 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 48","source_display":"Richard Neuhauss, Deutsch Neu-Guinea, vol. I (Berlin: Reimer, 1911), p. 259, fig. 173h; 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 48","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"hube","display_name":"Hube","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG48_neuhauss1911_fig173h.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG48_neuhauss1911_fig173h_thumb.jpg","alt":"Small Hube-area Schwirrholz: a slim tapered blade with a rounded point and a hole at its narrow forked end.","credit":"R. Neuhauss, Deutsch Neu-Guinea, Bd. 1 (Berlin, 1911), fig. 173h","license":"Public domain (published 1911)","source_page":"https://books.google.com/books?id=JRw7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA259","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"'Kleines Schwirrholz' (small bull-roarer) from the Hube area."},"slug":"png48-hube"}