{"id":"SCHEBESTA1921-002","label":"Dagoi Dagu bullroarer","people_or_site":"Dagu / Dagoi (Pay / Mala language)","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Dagoi / Dagu / Bogia District / Madang Province","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German / Dagoi place name","object_description":"Bullroarer; form and material unrecorded.","function_summary":"Present in the Dagoi ceremonial inventory.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"schebesta_1921_dagoi_schwirrholz","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://www.digi-hub.de/viewer/fulltext/DE-11-001853193/1116/","page_or_plate":"printed p. 1054; viewer page 1116","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Modern Dagoi/Dagoi Mission centroid cross-checked against the 1940 and 1952 historical maps; not a performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the Sepa villages near Bogia every clan kept a pair of bamboo flutes, a longer male and a shorter female, and the village as a whole shared one bullroarer. Dagoi, a Pay-speaking village east of Bogia, made do with the bullroarer alone.","pull_quote":"Dagoi hat keine Bambusflöte, sondern nur ein Schwirrholz.","pull_quote_translation":"Dagoi has no bamboo flute but only a bullroarer.","pull_quote_cite":"Schebesta 1921/22:1054","term_gloss":"No Dagoi bullroarer name is recorded; Dagu is the residents' name for the village and people","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":"Joseph Schebesta, 'Parak-Institution im Bogia-Distrikt unter den Sepa,' Anthropos 16/17 (1921/22), p. 1054","url":"https://www.digi-hub.de/viewer/fulltext/DE-11-001853193/1116/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013025848/https://www.digi-hub.de/viewer/fulltext/DE-11-001853193/1116/"}],"source_citations":"Joseph Schebesta, 'Parak-Institution im Bogia-Distrikt unter den Sepa,' Anthropos 16/17 (1921/22), p. 1054","source_display":"Joseph Schebesta, 'Parak-Institution im Bogia-Distrikt unter den Sepa,' Anthropos 16/17 (1921/22), p. 1054","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer; form and material unrecorded.","function_display":"Present in the Dagoi ceremonial inventory.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"dagu","display_name":"Dagoi Dagu bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/ng_astrolabe_bremen.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/ng_astrolabe_bremen_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long leaf-shaped Astrolabe Bay bullroarer in Bremen, with four pale oval marks and a carved grip end.","credit":"Übersee-Museum Bremen (inv. D09264, coll. Kapitän Rohde, Bogadjim), via museum-digital","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://nat.museum-digital.de/object/1583199","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A lanceolate Astrolabe Bay bullroarer.","pool_id":"auto-ng_astrolabe_bremen","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/SCHEBESTA1921_sepa_dagoi_p1054.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/SCHEBESTA1921_sepa_dagoi_p1054_thumb.jpg","credit":"Joseph Schebesta, Parak-Institution im Bogia-Distrikt unter den Sepa, Anthropos 16/17 (1921/22), p. 1054","license":"Public domain in the United States (published 1921/22)","source_page":"https://www.digi-hub.de/viewer/fulltext/DE-11-001853193/1116/","rehosted":true,"caption":"Page 1054 of Joseph Schebesta's 1921/22 report on the Bogia district, recording the bullroarer at Dagoi."}]},"slug":"schebesta1921-002-dagu-dagoi-pay-mala-language"}