The Bullroarer Atlas

No. CARROLL2024-006

Keru màyang

Papua New Guinea · Keru village, northern Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

Painted Koriki koe bullroarer from the Purari Delta, A. C. Haddon's collection: a broad oval board with a large round face and an elongated figure, bordered by pale chevrons and concentric eye forms.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Koriki koe bull-roarer: a painted Purari Delta board Image source

màyang

Source term: bullroarer: màyang

màyang: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Neme, Keru, Emil Mittag field data)

Neme speakers at Keru, in the north of the Morehead district of south-western Papua New Guinea, call the bullroarer màyang. It is one of a family of names spread across the Nambu languages of the Yam family: mayañg in Ndre, moyaŋg in Namo, meyang among the Nen of Bimadbn, whose clans each named roarers of their own, and moiank among the Keraki.

Particulars

Object
A bullroarer, called màyang; 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
  • 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.