No. MUS2026-354
Mongemonge twin Schwirrhölzer
Papua New Guinea · Mongemonge, east of Rein Bay · West New Britain · Oceania · Sahul
Function not recorded
Source term: Schwirrholz
Schwirrholz (German): literally “whirring wood”; the historic catalog designation.
Two roarers, inventoried one after the other, came off the north coast of West New Britain on 7 December 1908, when Friedrich Fülleborn's party of the Hamburg South Seas Expedition called at Mongemonge, east of Rein Bay. Both carry the same German word, Schwirrholz — whirring wood — the same village and the same day; the space for the people who made them was left empty. Around them in the consignment lie fish-shaped net floats, a drum, taro tools and combs: a coast recorded through its work and its sound.
Schwirrholz … Dorf Mongemonge (im Osten der Reinbucht)
Bullroarer / whirring wood … village of Mongemonge (east of Rein Bay).
MARKK Hamburg South Seas Expedition collection list, PDF pp. 159–160, inventories 1291 I and 1292 I.
Particulars
- Object
- Two separately inventoried objects catalogued as Schwirrholz, collected at Mongemonge east of Rein Bay on the north coast of West New Britain; material, dimensions, cord and form are not published.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
MARKK 1291 I and 1292 I: two Schwirrholz from Mongemonge east of Rein Bay, collected by Friedrich Fülleborn on 7 December 1908