MUS2026-069 - museum specimen
Kaluli
Papua New Guinea - Mount Bosavi, Great Papuan Pla - Oceania - Sahul
Function not recorded
Source term: bull-roarer
"Zoemhout" is Dutch museum cataloguing for "bull-roarer" (literally "humming wood").
A zoemhout, or bull-roarer, catalogued as Kaluli from Mount Bosavi and held as Wereldmuseum WM-74192. The Kaluli are among the most thoroughly recorded sound-cultures in New Guinea — Steven Feld's Sound and Sentiment maps their instruments down to the sob mussel-shell rattle, the uluna jew's harp, and the hand drum heard as a bird's weeping voice — yet no bullroarer carries a ceremony, a spirit-voice, or a prohibition in that literature. The museum line fixes object, culture, and place; what the roar meant on the slopes of Bosavi, if anything beyond play, was never written down.
Zoemhout
Wereldmuseum / NMVW WM-74192
- Object
- Zoemhout / bull-roarer of the Kaluli, Wereldmuseum / NMVW WM-74192; place Mount Bosavi.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - approximate culture/locality centroid
- Source location
- WM-74192