PNG173 - ethnographic attestation
Pororan Island
Papua New Guinea - Bougainville - Oceania - Sahul
Sacred / spirit
Source term: bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong flags
Pororan is a small reef island in the Buka Passage, off the west coast of Buka in northern Bougainville, home to Petats-speaking "saltwater people" who live by fishing and trade rather than gardening. A bullroarer and a slit-gong are recorded here in K. A. Gourlay's 1975 survey of esoteric instruments across New Guinea; no myth, rite, or local name for the bullroarer is set down for the island.
- Object
- bullroarer occurrence; bullroarer use; slit-gong occurrence; slit-gong use
- Function
- Gourlay source-catalog row with bullroarer use in PNG/Melanesia.
- Map confidence
- high - representative on-land anchor at Pororan Island (regional coordinate fell just offshore of the rendered coastline); not an exact findspot
- Source location
- Table 1, row 173