PNG43 - ethnographic attestation
Tapen
Papua New Guinea - Madang - Oceania - Sahul
Sacred / spirit
Source term: bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong flags
Among the Tapen of the Rai Coast in Madang Province, the bullroarer is recorded not just as present but as something actively used. The only source is K. A. Gourlay's 1975 survey of esoteric sound-producing instruments, which logs it for the Tapen and preserves nothing further about the rite or the sound.
- Object
- bullroarer occurrence; bullroarer use
- Function
- Gourlay source-catalog row with bullroarer use in PNG/Melanesia.
- Map confidence
- high - geocoded
- Source location
- Table 1, row 43