RECHE1909-001 - museum specimen
Dorf Bunu, Morobe Province (no people recorded)
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 earlier and later he was gathering things at Waramkau and Sikawa in the hill country behind Finschhafen; between those stops, 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
- Object
- 'Schwirrholz mit Band' — bullroarer with its cord — MARKK Hamburg inv. 4497 I; no dimensions or material recorded in the published database extract.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- low - Finschhafen / Huon Peninsula hinterland anchor: Bunu is not geolocatable in open sources, but Reche collected at Waramkau (9 May 1909) and Sikawa (11 May 1909) days either side of the Bunu visit, all in the Finschhafen collecting zone.
- Source location
- database extract, PDF p. 577