PNG63 - ethnographic attestation
Zia
Papua New Guinea - Morobe - Oceania - Sahul
Sacred / spirit
Source term: bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong flags
Among the Zia of the lower Waria Valley in Morobe, whose territory follows the river down to the Solomon Sea, the bullroarer is recorded as both present and in ritual use. The notice comes from E.W.P. Chinnery, the patrol officer who discovered the source of the Waria before training under A.C. Haddon at Cambridge and becoming government anthropologist of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; his report on the natives of the Waria, Williams and Bialolo watersheds is the entry's sole source. It records the instrument's presence and use and nothing more.
There he discovered the source of the Waria River.
Geoffrey Gray, "E.W.P. Chinnery: A Self-Made Anthropologist," in Scholars at War (ANU Press), ch. 17
- Object
- bullroarer occurrence; bullroarer use
- Function
- Gourlay source-catalog row with bullroarer use in PNG/Melanesia.
- Map confidence
- medium - alias_area
- Source location
- Table 1, row 63