No. PNG173
Pororan Island
Papua New Guinea · Bougainville · Oceania · Sahul
Restricted
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. Here the bullroarer and the slit-gong both belonged to initiation and to the secrets kept between the sexes.
Particulars
- Function
- Used in initiation or subject to restrictions between the sexes.
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, 1975), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 10, entry 173; Official Handbook of the Territory of New Guinea (Canberra, 1937), p. 372, footnote