No. MARKK1957-001
Wantoat bullroarer pair
Papua New Guinea · Wantoat valley, southern Finisterre Mountains, Markham District, Morobe Province · Oceania
Function not recorded
Source term: Schwirrholz
Two bullroarers from Wantoat entered the Hamburg museum in October 1957, with a small spear from the same valley. Wantoat lies on the southern fall of the Finisterre Mountains, where the Wantoat River runs down to the Markham. Its people speak Wantoat, one of the Finisterre languages, in villages such as Gwabogwat, Mamabam, Matap, Ginonga and Kupung, in dialects that shade into Wapu, Bam, Yagawak and Awara.
Particulars
- Object
- Two bullroarers catalogued from Wantoat; form and material not recorded in the inventory.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK), Hamburg, collection database extract, Ozeanien ab 1921, inv. 58.24:11–12