MUS2026-055 - museum specimen
Anga (Angu)
Papua New Guinea - Morobe–Gulf fringe (Anga) - Oceania - Sahul
Restricted
akwi-ó Anga (Kukukuku; Angan family, Morobe Province, PNG)
Source term: bull-roarer
Among the Anga, or Kukukuku, of the Upper Watut, Beatrice Blackwood photographed the bull-roarer swung from the high seat during a boy's nose-piercing initiation, the novice waiting and the piercer beside him. She collected this plain wooden example, tapered to a point and undecorated, on the same 1936-37 expedition into the then-unadministered country above the Papuan Gulf - one of more than two thousand objects that became the basis of her monograph The Kukukuku of the Upper Watut. No use was written down for this particular piece, but the rite itself she set down in photograph after photograph.
- Object
- Bull-roarer of the Anga (Angu), Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (acc. 1938.36.787).
- Function
- Blackwood photographed the bull-roarer being swung in the Anga nose-piercing initiation; no use is recorded for this particular specimen.
- Map confidence
- medium - approximate culture/locality centroid
- Source location
- 1938.36.787
- Initiation rite