The Bullroarer Atlas

No. CARROLL2024-004

Wereave sosam

Papua New Guinea · Wereave (Wereavere) village, western Morehead district near the Indonesian border, South Fly District, Western Province · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

Finsch's fig. 6: a Djabobibi blade
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Finsch's fig. 6: a Djabobibi blade Public domain · Image source

sosam

Source term: bullroarer: sosam

sosam: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Rema, Wereave, Emil Mittag field data)

Rema speakers at Wereave, close to the Indonesian border in the far south-west of Papua New Guinea, call the bullroarer sosam. The word is the name of Sosom, the stone-bodied giant of the Marind across the border, whose voice the bullroarer was, and whose home some Marind tellings set in this borderland, among the Kanum. Sosam is the bullroarer's name too at Sota, just over the border, and among the Arammba at Kiriwa.

Particulars

Object
A bullroarer, called sosam; its form is not recorded.
Function
Not recorded.

Sources

  1. Matthew J. Carroll, Wolfgang Barth, Nicholas Evans et al., Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database (University of Melbourne), concept 'bullroarer' View
  2. CLDF dataset derived from Carroll et al., "Yamfinder: The Southern New Guinea Lexical Database", Lexibank release v1.0 (2024) View
  3. J. van Baal, Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (The Hague, 1966), pp. 267-268 View · archived
  • Kiriwa sosamPapua New Guinea · Arammba (Upper Morehead) language area, Kiriwa village, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Wim wɑgrɑPapua New Guinea · Wim village, Pahoturi River country, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Tais mburerePapua New Guinea · Tais village, southern Morehead district near the coast, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Daraia áki kwèfanPapua New Guinea · Daraia village, north-east of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Mibini saɸaŋgəPapua New Guinea · Mibini village, south of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Function not recorded
  • Namo mbulu and moyaŋgPapua New Guinea · Namo language area, south of the Morehead River toward Tais, Morehead district, South Fly, Western Province · Function not recorded

Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.