The Bullroarer Atlas

No. PNG91

Tubulamo

Papua New Guinea · Central · Oceania · Sahul

Function not recorded

A long light-wood Lala (Nara) biliva model from Central Province, with two nested diamond motifs incised near the middle and a narrow projecting grip at one end.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Lala biliva model from Central Province. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Image source

Tubulamo is one of the Sinaugoro dialects of the Rigo area, inland of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea's Central Province. The bullroarer survives here as a single line in K. A. Gourlay's 1975 survey of sound-producing instruments across Papua New Guinea, with no local name for the instrument and no account of how it was used.

Particulars

Function
Not recorded.

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 and Port Moresby, 1975), p. 3 and Table 1, p. 7, entry 91

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