No. MUS2026-355
Umeretengteng twin Schwirrhölzer
Papua New Guinea · Umeretengteng · West New Britain · Oceania · Sahul
Function not recorded
Source term: Schwirrholz
Schwirrholz (German): literally “whirring wood”; the historic catalog designation.
On 9 December 1908, two days after collecting a pair of roarers at Mongemonge, east of Rein Bay, Friedrich Fülleborn of the Hamburg South Seas Expedition logged two more at a village called Umeretengteng. The name has since dropped out of the published record of West New Britain — no map, no ethnography, no second mention. What came in beside the pair says more than the place-name does: spears, a mask helmet, net floats, dance headdresses and a sling — fishing, dance and hunting gathered under a village that can no longer be found, and under no people's name at all.
Schwirrholz … Dorf Umeretengteng
Bullroarer / whirring wood … village of Umeretengteng.
MARKK Hamburg South Seas Expedition collection list, PDF pp. 162–163, inventories 1311 I and 1312 I.
Particulars
- Object
- Two separately inventoried objects catalogued as Schwirrholz, collected at Umeretengteng in West New Britain on 9 December 1908; material, dimensions, cord and form are not published.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
MARKK 1311 I and 1312 I: two Schwirrholz from Umeretengteng, collected by Friedrich Fülleborn on 9 December 1908