The Bullroarer Atlas

No. PNG63

Zia bullroarer sounded at initiation

Papua New Guinea · Morobe · Oceania · Sahul

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Two views of Hospice Saint-Roch bullroarers, showing dark blades with pale incised designs and a fork-notched end.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. One of the Hospice Saint-Roch bull-roarers. Image source

The Zia sounded the bullroarer at initiation along the lower Waria River, where it runs toward the Solomon Sea.

Bullroarers are sounded during initiation ceremonies of the Zia

K. A. Gourlay, Sound-Producing Instruments in Traditional Society (1975), p. 45

Particulars

Function
Sounded during initiation ceremonies.

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), Table 1, p. 7, entry 63, and p. 45, after E. W. P. Chinnery (n.d. C), p. 60

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