EXH2026-034 - ethnographic attestation
Yimar (Korowori)
Papua New Guinea - Upper Korowori (Karawari) River, East Sepik - Oceania
Restricted
irimundur German
Source term: Schwirrholz
irimundur — the Yimar (upper Korowori River) name for the bullroarer, recorded by Haberland and Seyfarth among the instruments of the men's sphere.
Among the Yimar of the upper Korowori River in the East Sepik, the bullroarer belonged to the men alone. Eike Haberland and Siegfried Seyfarth, in their 1974 monograph on the group, set it among the gear of a sphere closed to women and children — the same male world that produced the carved one-legged hunting-spirit figures kept in the men's house and, when their owners died, carried up to the limestone caves of the hills. They recorded its Yimar name as irimundur.
- Object
- Bullroarer figured as Abb. 62 (p. 197) in the Yimar monograph.
- Function
- Part of Yimar men's-cult equipment, restricted to a sphere closed to women and children (Haberland & Seyfarth 1974, Schwirrholz Abb. 62, p. 197).
- Map confidence
- high - upper Korowori/Karawari river country
- Source location
Page references
irimundur p. 196; Abb. 62, p. 197; instruments pp. 190-222
- Forbidden to women