MINE2026-082 - candidate identification
Miau Baru Kayan buluq laluq wind bullroarer
Indonesia - Miau Baru, Kongbeng, East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan - Southeast Asia - Borneo
Function not recorded
buluq laluq English
Source term: bull roarer
buluq laluq: the Kayan Umaq Lekan name Maceda records for the possible wind bullroarer; no translation is supplied.
Maceda heard about the buluq laluq at Miau Baru, a village founded in 1961 by Kayan Umaq Lekan migrants who had come down from the upper rivers, thirteen hundred people strong by his 1977 music workshop. His informants described it — 'a bull roarer agitated by the wind' — as an instrument of their own, listed apart from the pull-string clapper that guarded the rice fields, though no one played one for him. A 1979 project booklet confirms the name again as balu? lalu?. What the blade looked like, nobody recorded.
buluq laluq, a bull roarer agitated by the wind.
Jose Maceda, 'Report of a Music Workshop in East Kalimantan' (1978), p. 93.
- Object
- Wind-agitated sound-maker named buluq laluq and catalogued as a bullroarer; construction is not described.
- Function
- Sounded by the wind; its particular purpose is not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Miau Baru village coordinate; Maceda names the community, not an individual performance site.
- Source location
Page references
p. 93 (PDF p. 21)