The Bullroarer Atlas

No. CARROLL2024-007

Tais mburere

Papua New Guinea · Tais village, southern Morehead district near the coast, South Fly District, Western Province · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

Goaribari bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers)
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Goaribari bull-roarer (Pitt Rivers) Image source

mburere

Source term: bullroarer: mburere

mburere: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Len, Tais, Nicholas Evans field data)

At Tais, near the coast in the south of the Morehead district of Papua New Guinea, Len speakers call the bullroarer mburere. The name stands apart from the meyang and moiank of the Nambu languages to the north. Its echo lies in the other instrument of the region: burere, burara or burarè is the bamboo flute in Namo, Ndre and Nama.

Particulars

Object
A bullroarer, called mburere; 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
  • 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
  • Ndre mayañgPapua New Guinea · Ndre (Dre) language area, northern Morehead district, South Fly, Western Province · Function not recorded

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