{"id":"POLY2026-011","label":"Pije maguk, the bee","people_or_site":"Pije (Kanak)","country_current":"New Caledonia (France)","historic_region":"Hienghène, Province Nord","macroregion":"Oceania / Melanesia","local_name":"maguk","source_term":"coconut-leaf whizzer","source_language":"English / Pije","object_description":"A piece of coconut leaf on a string.","function_summary":"Twirled to hum like a bee.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"garland1998_new_caledonia","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/austriliapacific0009unse_1998","page_or_plate":"Garland vol. 9, c. p. 679","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Language-area anchor at Hienghène, north-east Grande Terre; not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the Pije-speaking country around Hienghène, on the north-east coast of New Caledonia, a piece of coconut leaf tied to a string and twirled hummed like a bee, and the toy took the bee's name, maguk. Across the water in Vanuatu the same leaf toy is found. Samoans also named their leaf roarer for a bee, and Javanese children named theirs for the carpenter bee. Each people heard the same insect in the same sound.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"maguk (Pije): \"bee\"; the name of the coconut-leaf whizzer.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Islands (1998), \"New Caledonia\" article, c. p. 679, citing Hans Fischer, Sound-Producing Instruments in Oceania (1983), pp. 196-197; New Caledonia: a travel survival kit (Lonely Planet, 1994), musical instruments section","url":"https://archive.org/details/austriliapacific0009unse_1998"}],"source_citations":"The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Islands (1998), \"New Caledonia\" article, c. p. 679, citing Hans Fischer, Sound-Producing Instruments in Oceania (1983), pp. 196-197; New Caledonia: a travel survival kit (Lonely Planet, 1994), musical instruments section","source_display":"The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Islands (1998), \"New Caledonia\" article, c. p. 679, citing Hans Fischer, Sound-Producing Instruments in Oceania (1983), pp. 196-197; New Caledonia: a travel survival kit (Lonely Planet, 1994), musical instruments section","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A piece of coconut leaf on a string.","function_display":"Twirled to hum like a bee.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"pije","display_name":"Pije maguk, the bee","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/buck1927_aitutaki_fig281_patangitangi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/buck1927_aitutaki_fig281_patangitangi_thumb.jpg","alt":"Buck’s construction diagram of the Aitutaki coconut-leaflet patangitangi: a curved leaflet loop above a flat strip, an enlarged tied attachment and the assembled instrument on its cord, labelled A–D.","credit":"Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck), The Material Culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki) (1927), fig. 281","license":"Public domain","source_page":"http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucMate.html","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A coconut-leaf roarer of the same kind, from Aitutaki in the Cook Islands.","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--buck1927_aitutaki_fig281_patangitangi"},"slug":"poly2026-011-pije-kanak"}