No. PNG48
Hube
Papua New Guinea · Morobe · Oceania · Sahul
Function not recorded
The Hube are an Eastern Huon people of the Morobe interior, scattered through the Mongi and Kua river valleys behind the Huon Peninsula coast. Their bullroarer survives as a picture in Richard Neuhauss's 1911 Deutsch Neu-Guinea: a slender spindle of a blade, pierced and fork-tipped at one end. On the coast nearby, the Yabim and Bukaua tied an identical instrument to the swallowing-monster of male initiation and called it balum, the voice of an ancestral ghost.
Particulars
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Richard Neuhauss, Deutsch Neu-Guinea, vol. I (Berlin: Reimer, 1911), p. 259, fig. 173h; 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 48