The Bullroarer Atlas

No. DAVIDSON2017-001Oceania

Pig Bay notched bone blade

New Zealand · Pig Bay · Motutapu Island · Hauraki Gulf · Oceania · Polynesia

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Archaeological datec. 1400–1500 ADPig Bay occupation range from radiocarbon dates; object came from a disturbance in Layer 8.
Bone and shell finds from Pig Bay, numbered 1–6; the long flat bone item at left, marked 1, is identified as a possible kōrorohū bullroarer.
Plate I. Bone and shell items from Pig Bay; the bullroarer is the flat bone kōrorohū blade at left, marked 1. Image source

kōrorohū

Source term: bullroarer / kōrorohū

Kōrorohū: Māori term for a child's bullroarer.

Among the adze-making debris at Pig Bay, on Motutapu Island in the Hauraki Gulf, lay a carefully shaped flat bone kōrorohū — a child's bullroarer. Its pointed blade and compact notched waist give the small instrument its distinctive form.

Particulars

Object
Carefully shaped flat bone object with opposed shallow notches near its middle, from a disturbance in Layer 8, square B101.

Source

Janet Davidson and Foss Leach, 'Archaeological excavations at Pig Bay,' Records of the Auckland Museum 52 (2017), p. 17, fig. 9.1

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