PNG91 - ethnographic attestation
Tubulamo
Papua New Guinea - Central - Oceania - Sahul
Function not recorded
Source term: bullroarer / sacred flute / slit-gong flags
Tubulamo is one of the Sinaugoro dialects of the Rigo area, inland of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea's Central Province; its speakers are among the related groups who, as the linguist T. E. Dutton recorded, call themselves "the Taboro (or Tubulamo, or Humene) people." 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.
- Object
- bullroarer occurrence
- Function
- Gourlay source-catalog row with bullroarer occurrence; function not stated.
- Map confidence
- medium - alias_area
- Source location
Page references
Table 1, row 91 (Column A: occurrence BR = X; Column B: usage = blank)