The Bullroarer Atlas

NGUINEA-012 - museum specimen

Mairipepia village, Gulf Province

Papua New Guinea - Gulf Province - Mairipepia village - Oceania - Sahul

Function not recorded

A dark wooden blade carved at its flared, corded handle end with a stylised face, the rest of the surface covered edge to edge in white,...
A dark wooden blade carved at its flared, corded handle end with a stylised face, the rest of the surface covered edge to edge in white, orange-brown, and black diamond-and-cross patterning ending in feathered chevrons at the tip — the Mairipepia rhombe from the same 1993 acquisition lot as the undigitized example documented here. © Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Image source

Source term: Rhombe

A wooden bullroarer from Mairipepia village in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea, held by the Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris as object 305040, inventory 72.1993.1.32. The catalogue records the village and the object but nothing of who made it sound, when, or for what rite. It is one of the Papuan Gulf bullroarers gathered into a European museum with its provenance reduced to a place name.

Object
Quai Branly object 305040 / inventory 72.1993.1.32, identified as a rhombe from Mairipepia village, Gulf Province.
Function
Function not recorded.
Map confidence
medium - Representative Mairipepia / Gulf Province anchor; exact village coordinate not independently locked.
Source location
Quai Branly object 305040 / inventory 72.1993.1.32

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