{"id":"PNG64","label":"Bia-Waria","people_or_site":"Bia-Waria","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Morobe","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; bullroarer use; sacred flute occurrence; sacred flute use","function_summary":"Bia-Waria/Guhu-Samane Waria poro bull-roarer used in initiation; held in mystical custody by poro mothers, then whirled by a priest to frighten young women and children.","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":"Gourlay Table 1, row 64; Richert 1965 pp. 81, 85; Official Handbook 1937 p. 391 via Gourlay","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Garaina in the upper Waria valley, Morobe (GeoNames 2097179), standing for the Bia-Waria; an area anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The \"Bia-Waria\" of K.A. Gourlay's 1975 survey are the people of the upper Waria valley in Morobe whose language, Guhu-Samane, was also recorded under the name Bia. Gourlay's table marks the valley as a place where the bullroarer and the sacred flute were both sounded; among these people both belonged to poro, the men's cult that governed initiation, marriage, war and peace, in which the bullroarer was a hardwood paddle whirled on a long cord to raise a wail meant to frighten the women and children of the distant village.","pull_quote":"drive fear and horror into the young women and children","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Richert, 'How the Guhu-Samane Cult of Poro Affects Translation,' The Bible Translator 16 (1965), p. 81","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation","women_taboo","women_special"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":true,"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 64, citing Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea (1937), p. 391; Ernest Richert, 'How the Guhu-Samane Cult of Poro Affects Translation' (1965), pp. 81 and 85","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 64, citing Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea (1937), p. 391; Ernest Richert, 'How the Guhu-Samane Cult of Poro Affects Translation' (1965), pp. 81 and 85","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 64, citing Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea (1937), p. 391; Ernest Richert, 'How the Guhu-Samane Cult of Poro Affects…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Bia-Waria/Guhu-Samane Waria poro bull-roarer used in initiation; held in mystical custody by poro mothers, then whirled by a priest to frighten young women and children.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bia waria","display_name":"Bia-Waria","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/europeana_418.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/europeana_418_thumb.jpg","alt":"Three carved New Guinea bullroarer blades, with pierced ends and pale geometric face motifs on dark wood.","credit":"Museum of the Hospice Saint-Roch (acc. #CM:0875485)","license":"","source_page":"http://basenationale.philharmoniedeparis.fr/doc/BASENATIONALE/0875485","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A carved New Guinea bull-roarer with a round face and chevron body."},"slug":"png64-bia-waria"}