NGUINEA-001 - museum specimen
Yupno
Papua New Guinea - Nokopo village, Finisterre Range, Madang Province - Oceania
Function not recorded
numbung
numbung — the Yupno name recorded for this bullroarer.
A bullroarer slat cut from obip, the black-palm (limbum) wood, strung on a 1.6-metre fibre cord and fitted with a curved length of bamboo as a carrier-stick. It was collected at Nokopo, a Yupno village high in the Finisterre Range of Madang Province, by the ethnographers Christin Kocher Schmid and Verena Keck before 1988, and is now held at the Museum der Kulturen Basel, which records no account of how it was used.
Bull-roarer "numbung", Yupno
Museum der Kulturen Basel cached object metadata, Vb 30049
- Object
- Bull-roarer slat of obip (limbum-palm) wood on a 1.6m fibre cord with a curved bamboo carrier-stick (Museum der Kulturen Basel, acc. Vb 30049).
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - approximate territory centroid (mining 2026)
- Source location
- MKB Vb 30049; site/bullroarer/assets/objects/MINE2026-021.jpg