{"id":"PNG53","label":"Cape Cretin","people_or_site":"Cape Cretin","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Morobe","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 53","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Cape Cretin, south of Finschhafen, Morobe (GeoNames 2098520).","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A bullroarer and a slit-gong were logged side by side at Cape Cretin, the headland guarding the mouth of Langemak Bay on the Huon Gulf, then carried off to nineteenth-century collectors as bare carved specimens: no name written down, no account of who swung the one or struck the other. This is bullroarer coast, thick with men's ceremony, yet the Cape Cretin entry keeps its silence. The objects survived; the rite that gave them a voice did not.","pull_quote":"give no uses within the present context","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Gourlay 1975, p. 15, Huon Gulf source-cluster discussion","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","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 53; source-cluster discussion p. 15","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 53; source-cluster discussion p. 15","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 53; source-cluster discussion p. 15","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"cape cretin","display_name":"Cape Cretin","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PNG53_png53-cape-cretin-leiden-553-8-kunst1967.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PNG53_png53-cape-cretin-leiden-553-8-kunst1967_thumb.jpg","credit":"Ethnographic Museum, Leiden (553/8), in Jaap Kunst, Music in New Guinea: Three Studies (1967), illustration 33d","license":"CC BY-NC 4.0 (1967 edition, publisher ISBN 9789004286832); cropped and rotated from the published museum photograph.","source_page":"https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9789004286832/html","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Cape Cretin bullroarer, Leiden 553/8; Kunst 1967, illustration 33d."},"slug":"png53-cape-cretin"}