{"id":"WILSON1973-001","label":"Suena bui, flute and bullroarer","people_or_site":"Suena (Yarawe; Yema), Bosadi","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Coast near the old Morobe Patrol Post, Morobe Province (Bosadi village)","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"bui","source_term":"bui n. 1) flute, bullroarer. 2) var. of fish: cow fish. 3) secret, mystery.","source_language":"Suena","object_description":"A bullroarer, called bui, the same word as the flute; its form is not recorded.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"wilson1973_suena_dictionary","source_type":"language_dictionary","source_url":"https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/31122","page_or_plate":"Wilson and Wilson 1973 (web ed. 2008) p. 13, entry bui; p. 57, index entry bullroarer.","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Bosadi village point (OpenStreetMap, Huon District, Morobe), where the compilers lived and gathered the dictionary data; village anchor, not a collection point","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Suena one word, bui, named both the bullroarer and the flute, and the same word meant a secret, a mystery. The flutes were played as a pair, the female bui bama in concert with the male bui ema; the spirit house was bui ibu, and to spill the beans, to tell a secret, was bui bezai. Some two thousand Suena live on the coast of Morobe Province in Papua New Guinea, around the old Morobe patrol post.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"bui: 1) flute, bullroarer; 2) a fish, cow fish; 3) secret, mystery (Wilson and Wilson 1973, p. 13)","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":"Darryl and Lael Wilson, Suena-English Dictionary and English-Suena Dictionary (Ukarumpa: SIL, 1973; web ed. 2008), pp. 13, 57","url":"https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/31122"}],"source_citations":"Darryl and Lael Wilson, Suena-English Dictionary and English-Suena Dictionary (Ukarumpa: SIL, 1973; web ed. 2008), pp. 13, 57","source_display":"Darryl and Lael Wilson, Suena-English Dictionary and English-Suena Dictionary (Ukarumpa: SIL, 1973; web ed. 2008), pp. 13, 57","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer, called bui, the same word as the flute; its form is not recorded.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"suena yarawe","display_name":"Suena bui, flute and bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Oc1906-1013-663-664.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Oc1906-1013-663-664_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long red-brown bullroarer blade with a white face-like design and geometric bands near its notched end.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (E/Oc1906-1013-663-664)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1906-1013-663-664","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A long dark red-brown bull-roarer blade","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--bm_E_Oc1906-1013-663-664","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"wilson1973-001-suena-yarawe-yema-bosadi"}