The Bullroarer Atlas

No. PNG157

New Hanover (incl. Tungak, Lavongai)

Papua New Guinea · New Ireland · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

A long dark New Guinea wooden bullroarer with a hole near one end, a transverse patterned band and two rows of pale triangles along the carved half.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. A long dark New Guinea bull-roarer. CC BY-SA · Image source

On New Hanover, the large volcanic island off the northwest end of New Ireland whose inhabitants know it as Lavongai, the bullroarer was known alongside the slit-gong.

Particulars

Function
Not recorded.

Source

K. A. Gourlay, Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society: A Study of Esoteric Instruments and Their Role in Male-Female Relations (New Guinea Research Bulletin 60; Canberra and Port Moresby, 1975), Table 1, entry 157

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.