No. MUS2026-323
Anga trio still bound together
Papua New Guinea · Morobe Province · Oceania · Sahul
Sacred / spirit
Source term: Bullroarer
akwi-ó: the Anga word for the bullroarer, recorded in the Upper Watut.
Among the Anga of the Upper Watut the bullroarer is akwi-ó, and Beatrice Blackwood photographed one swung from the high seat while a boy sat waiting to have his nose pierced. Three blades out of her 1936–37 collecting arrived tied together and have stayed that way: each 24 centimetres long and 12 millimetres across, no wider than the edge of a ruler. Whoever knotted them treated the three as one thing, and the knot has outlasted everybody who could say why.
Particulars
- Object
- Three Anga bullroarers of wood and plant fibre, each 240 × 12 mm, bound together as one group.
- Function
- Not recorded for this group.
Source
Pitt Rivers Museum 1938.36.785.1 / 1938.36.785.2 / 1938.36.785.3; Three 240 × 12 mm Anga bullroarers of wood and plant fibre, explicitly catalogued as bound together