The Bullroarer Atlas

PNG123 - ethnographic attestation

Maipka

Papua New Guinea - Western Highlands - Oceania - Sahul

Sacred / spirit

A long, tapering wooden blade left mostly plain but for a band of fine.
Representative — not this record’s object. · A long, tapering wooden blade left mostly plain but for a band of fine. · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Image source

Source term: bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong flags

At Maipka — the place now called Kol Station, in the Jimi Valley, then administered as part of the Western Highlands — both the bullroarer and the men's sacred flute were in use, paired voices of a men's ceremonial world whose details never reached print.

Object
bullroarer occurrence; bullroarer use; sacred flute occurrence; sacred flute use
Function
Gourlay source-catalog row with bullroarer use in PNG/Melanesia.
Map confidence
medium - alias_area
Source location
Table 1, row 123

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