MUS2026-076 - museum specimen
Gogodala
Papua New Guinea - Western Province (Aramia River - Oceania - Sahul
Function not recorded
Source term: bull-roarer
Carved and scorched with figures, this roarer comes from the Gogodala, lagoon-dwellers of the Aramia River floodplain whose adolescent boys were once inducted into aida — a male secret society whose spectacular initiation bound neighbouring longhouses together and closed its rites to women. In 1936, local converts and Unevangelised Fields missionaries burned nearly all of that ceremonial world as heathenism. Whether this fire-marked piece had a voice in it, and who was allowed to hear it, went unrecorded before it left the river.
Bromhout met ingekraste en ingebrande figuren
Wereldmuseum / NMVW TM-2670-418
- Object
- Decorated snorrebot / bull-roarer of the Gogodala, Wereldmuseum / NMVW TM-2670-418.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - approximate culture/locality centroid
- Source location
- TM-2670-418