{"id":"PNG73","label":"Utuwala","people_or_site":"Utuwala","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Milne Bay","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"English","object_description":"bullroarer occurrence; sacred flute 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 73","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Baniara district point on the north coast of mainland Milne Bay (GeoNames 2133902), standing for Utuwala, whose village is not mapped.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Utuwala is one of the rare places in eastern Papua where the bullroarer is found at all, and it kept a sacred flute besides. K. A. Gourlay called this stretch of the Central and Milne Bay districts the \"Eastern Papua area of significant absence,\" where bullroarer, sacred flute and slit-gong turn up in only a small minority of places. What Utuwala did with its pair went unrecorded.","pull_quote":"Nowhere, however, are their uses of sufficient importance in the esoteric field to undermine the general tendency.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Gourlay 1975, Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society (New Guinea Research Bulletin No. 60), p. 16","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, p. 7, entry 73, and p. 16","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, p. 7, entry 73, and p. 16","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, p. 7, entry 73, and p. 16","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"utuwala","display_name":"Utuwala","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/smg_161.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/smg_161_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long reddish-brown lance-shaped bullroarer with pale-filled face and geometric carving across much of the blade, and cord threaded through its carved end.","credit":"Science Museum Group (acc. A155755)","license":"","source_page":"https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co104731","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A long lance-shaped bull-roarer."},"slug":"png73-utuwala"}