No. RECHE1909-001
Bunu village Schwirrholz (MARKK 4497 I)
Papua New Guinea · Morobe Province · Finschhafen hinterland · Oceania
Function not recorded
On 6 May 1909, Otto Reche of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition collected a Schwirrholz mit Band — a bullroarer with its cord still on — at the village of Bunu in Morobe. The Hamburg ledger preserves the object, the village, and the day, and nothing else: no people named, no measurements taken down, no photograph published. Days later he was gathering things at Waramkau and Sikawa in the hill country behind Finschhafen; one line in the inventory is the whole record of the day the roarer left Bunu.
Schwirrholz mit Band. Dorf Bunu. 6. Mai 1909. Reche, Otto.
Bullroarer with cord. Village of Bunu. 6 May 1909. Otto Reche.
MARKK Hamburg collection database, inv. 4497 I
Particulars
- Object
- A Schwirrholz mit Band — a bullroarer with its cord — MARKK Hamburg inv. 4497 I.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
MARKK Hamburg, Sammlungs-Datenbank extract “Ozeanien: Hamburger Suedsee-Expedition,” PDF p. 577, inv. 4497 I, “Schwirrholz mit Band”