The Bullroarer Atlas

No. HEATH1978-001

Ngandi maralpiṇḍiʔ

Australia · Upper Wilton and Mainoru rivers, east toward the sources of the Rose River, south-eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

Function not recorded

McConnel’s black-and-white photograph of the Wik-Mungkan paka paka ceremony: two men with white body markings stand while three others bend low in front of them.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Wik-Mungkan paka paka swung in McConnel’s ritual photograph Image source

maralpiṇḍiʔ (ma-maralpiṇḍiʔ)

Source term: (ma-)maralpiṇḍi? (N) (1) bull-roarer. (2) tree sp.

maralpiṇḍiʔ: (1) bullroarer; (2) a tree species (Heath 1978, p. 156)

In Ngandi the bullroarer was maralpiṇḍiʔ, and the same word named a kind of tree. Ngandi country lies on the upper Wilton and Mainoru rivers in south-eastern Arnhem Land, with the Nunggubuyu to the east and the Ngalakan and Rembarrnga to the west. To the north, Ritharrngu, Djinang and Burarra speakers called the instrument by the same name, maralbindi.

Particulars

Object
A bullroarer, called maralpiṇḍiʔ; its form is not recorded.
Function
Not recorded.

Source

Jeffrey Heath, Ngandi Grammar, Texts, and Dictionary (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1978), pp. 156, 175

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  • Djinang maralbindiAustralia · Crocodile Islands and Milingimbi south to the middle Blyth River and east to the Glyde River, north-central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory · Function not recorded
  • Djinba malaidjaraAustralia · Inland from the northern Arafura Swamp to the upper Goyder River, central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory · Function not recorded
  • Gunwinggu gubarAustralia · Western Arnhem Land stone country, Liverpool River to Oenpelli (Gunbalanya), Northern Territory · Function not recorded
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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.