{"id":"SEA-002","label":"Dyak Hantu-Hantuan Southwest Kalimantan bullroarer","people_or_site":"Dyak","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Southwest Kalimantan / Borneo","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Borneo","local_name":"hantu-hantuan","source_term":"Bull-Roarer Hantu-Hantuan","source_language":"English","object_description":"","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"SI_NMNH_8375380_DYAK_HANTU_HANTUAN","source_type":"smithsonian_open_access_api","source_url":"https://www.si.edu/object/nmnhanthropology_8375380","page_or_plate":"NMNH Anthropology record; Hose & McDougall 1912, vol. II, p. 23","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Southwest Kalimantan source place not Smithsonian location","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A bullroarer collected among the Dyak of southwestern Kalimantan and catalogued by the Smithsonian under the name hantu-hantuan, a reduplication of the Malay word hantu, ghost or spirit — roughly \"the spirit thing.\" It was one of more than seventeen hundred Bornean objects gathered by the American naturalist William Louis Abbott, mostly between 1905 and 1909, working from his schooner the Terrapin. Its own use is a blank. Across Borneo the bull-roarer was a boys' toy with a single further office: when jungle was cleared for padi, a few trees were spared for the Toh, the spirits of the place, and a bull-roarer was sometimes hung on a cross-piece lashed to such a tree \"to dangle and flicker in the breeze.\" Hose and McDougall, who set that down in Pagan Tribes of Borneo (1912), knew of no other use.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"hantu-hantuan — Malay/Indonesian, a reduplicated form of hantu (\"ghost, spirit\"), roughly \"the spirit thing\" or \"spirit-like.\"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"etymology":"A reduplication of Malay hantu, 'ghost, spirit'.","literal_gloss":"spirit thing / ghost-like thing","semantic_cluster":"spirit; ghost","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, 'Bull-Roarer Hantu-Hantuan', Dyak, Southwest Kalimantan, Borneo (W. L. Abbott collection); Hose & McDougall, The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (1912), vol. II, p. 23","url":"https://www.si.edu/object/nmnhanthropology_8375380"}],"source_citations":"Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, 'Bull-Roarer Hantu-Hantuan', Dyak, Southwest Kalimantan, Borneo (W. L. Abbott collection); Hose & McDougall, The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (1912), vol. II, p. 23","source_display":"Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, 'Bull-Roarer Hantu-Hantuan', Dyak, Southwest Kalimantan, Borneo (W. L. Abbott collection); Hose & McDougall, The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (1912), vol. II, p. 23","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"dyak","display_name":"Dyak Hantu-Hantuan Southwest Kalimantan bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SEA-002_nmnh_8375380_dyak_hantu.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SEA-002_nmnh_8375380_dyak_hantu_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, flat wooden Dyak slat lies horizontally, with a cord looped through a hole at its left end.","credit":"Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Anthropology (nmnhanthropology_8375380)","license":"Smithsonian — image 'Usage Conditions Apply' (metadata CC0)","source_page":"https://www.si.edu/object/nmnhanthropology_8375380","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Dyak hantu-hantuan itself: a flat wooden slat pierced at one end, with a single cord threaded through the hole."},"slug":"sea-002-dyak"}