The Bullroarer Atlas

No. CARROLL2024-009

Daraia áki kwèfan

Papua New Guinea · Daraia village, north-east of Morehead station, Morehead district, South Fly District, Western Province · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

Schmeltz’s 1896 drawing of the Toaripi tiparu after Edge-Partington: a broad leaf-like blade with a face at one end, repeated chevron bands and short fibre ties at its tips and shoulders.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. The Toaripi tiparu of Edge-Partington's album Public domain · Image source

áki kwèfan

Source term: bullroarer: áki kwèfan

áki kwèfan: bullroarer (Yamfinder, Nama, Daraia, Jeff Siegel field data)

The Nama of Daraia, north-east of Morehead station in the Trans-Fly of Papua New Guinea, call the bullroarer áki kwèfan. They keep a full set of names for the instruments of sound: the drum is brubru, and two bamboo flutes are burarè and latu. At Mibini, speakers of the closely related Namat call the roarer saɸaŋgə; to the north, Neme speakers at Keru say màyang.

Particulars

Object
A bullroarer, called áki kwèfan; 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
  • 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.