FRIEDERICI1913-001 - lexical attestation
Kapunimutzimburi of the Tabar Islands
Papua New Guinea - Tabar Islands (Simberi, Tatau, Big Tabar), off north-east New Ireland, New Ireland Province - former German New Guinea (Neu-Mecklenburg) - Oceania - Sahul
Function not recorded
kăpúnịmŭtzĭmbụrị (kapunimutzimburi)
Source term: Schwirrholz
kăpúnịmŭtzĭmbụrị (kapunimutzimburi): the bullroarer at Simberi and Marei, Tabar Islands. Friederici compared it with Barriai tibura (west New Britain) and Florida buro (Solomon Islands).
On Simberi and Marei, in the Tabar Islands off north-east New Ireland, the homeland remembered for malanggan, the carved memorials to the dead, the bullroarer was the kăpúnịmŭtzĭmbụrị. Its long name ends in a sound heard far along the island chain: tibura among the Barriai of west New Britain, buro on Florida in the Solomons.
Unter der nicht unerheblichen Zahl von Ausdrücken für Schwirrholz, die ich besitze, ist nur einer, der etwas Anklang an die beiden hier gegebenen Worte hat: Simberi und Maréi (Tabar-Inseln): kăpúnịmŭtzĭmbụrị.
Of the not inconsiderable number of words for the bullroarer that I have, only one has any echo of the two given here: Simberi and Marei (Tabar Islands): kapunimutzimburi.
Georg Friederici, Untersuchungen über eine melanesische Wanderstraße (1913), p. 133
- Object
- Bullroarer, known only by its Tabar name.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Source
- Georg Friederici, Untersuchungen über eine melanesische Wanderstraße (1913), p. 133
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 133 (no. 137), with the comparative table p. 68, row 137
- Source confidence
- medium
- Location note
- Simberi Island centroid (OpenStreetMap way 24587032). Friederici names Simberi and Marei; Simberi is also a village on Simberi Island (Friederici lists "Katartar und Simberi, Insel Simberi"); Marei is not located. Island anchor, not a findspot.
Regions: Melanesia