NGUINEA-005 - museum specimen
Sirorata, Oro Province
Papua New Guinea - Oro Province - Sirorata - Oceania - Sahul
Function not recorded
sova English
Source term: sova (Bullroarer)
A bullroarer from Sirorata, an Orokaiva village in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea, now in the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology as object 2623/2. It is held under the name sova. Nothing was set down about how it was used: who swung it, who was permitted to hear it, or on what occasion it was sounded. Among the Orokaiva of Oro Province, the spirit of a dead person is a sovai, a being that lingers near the village and can bring sickness or death to the living, but no record ties this object's name to that belief.
- Object
- UBC Museum of Anthropology sova, object type Bullroarer; object number 2623/2; place made Papua New Guinea: Oro, Sirorata.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Representative Sirorata / Oro Province anchor; exact object findspot not separately geocoded.
- Source location
- UBC MOA object 2623/2