{"id":"SCHMELTZ1896-002","label":"Port Moresby Papan house emblem and child's bullroarer","people_or_site":"Port Moresby","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Port Moresby, British New Guinea","macroregion":"Oceania / New Guinea","local_name":"Papan","source_term":"","source_language":"German","object_description":"Two Port Moresby bullroarers: the oval Papan with a terminal cord hole, ornamented with curved parallel lines forming a stylized animal, partly red-painted; and an elongated oval child's bullroarer with two cross-bands and fern-leaf figures, its cord ending in a finger loop.","function_summary":"Hung in the great house, the Eramo, as a luck symbol; the same town also yielded a child's bullroarer whirled from a finger loop, not a stick — spirit emblem and plaything side by side.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"schmeltz_1896_schwirrholz","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/internationalesa09inte","page_or_plate":"Schmeltz 1896, p. 108, figs 20 and 27","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Port Moresby; the maker community is unrecorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Not every bullroarer was made to fly. The Papan of Port Moresby — an oval blade drawn over with curving lines that gather into a stylized animal, partly reddened — hung in the Eramo, the great house, as a luck symbol: the missionary James Chalmers, who knew the town well, sent it to Europe with that account. Whose hands carved it, the record never says. A second Port Moresby bullroarer is a child's: an elongated oval marked with two cross-bands and little fern-leaf figures, on a cord that ends not at a stick but in a loop for the finger. House emblem and plaything, from the same town, side by side.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"Papan — the name recorded with the object; no gloss given.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, 'Das Schwirrholz,' Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie IX (1896), p. 108 with plate figs 20 and 27","url":"https://archive.org/details/internationalesa09inte"}],"source_citations":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, 'Das Schwirrholz,' Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie IX (1896), p. 108 with plate figs 20 and 27","source_display":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, 'Das Schwirrholz,' Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie IX (1896), p. 108 with plate figs 20 and 27","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two Port Moresby bullroarers: the oval Papan with a terminal cord hole, ornamented with curved parallel lines forming a stylized animal, partly red-painted; and an elongated oval child's bullroarer with two cross-bands and fern-leaf figures, its cord ending in a finger loop.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"port moresby","display_name":"Port Moresby Papan house emblem and child's bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SCHMELTZ1896-002_fig20_papan.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SCHMELTZ1896-002_fig20_papan_thumb.jpg","credit":"Schmeltz 1896, pl. fig. 20","license":"Public domain (Schmeltz 1896, Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographie IX)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/internationalesa09inte","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Papan — curved-line animal ornament on the oval blade that hung in the Eramo.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/SCHMELTZ1896-003_fig27_toy.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SCHMELTZ1896-003_fig27_toy_thumb.jpg","alt":"A cropped line drawing of a child’s bullroarer: a long pointed blade with patterned bands near one end, attached by cord to a partly visible finger loop.","credit":"Schmeltz 1896, pl. fig. 27","license":"Public domain (Schmeltz 1896, Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographie IX)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/internationalesa09inte","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The child's rig complete — blade, cord, and the finger loop it was whirled from."}]},"slug":"schmeltz1896-002-port-moresby-cultural-affiliation-unrecorded"}