The Bullroarer Atlas

SCHEBESTA1921-002 - ethnographic attestation

Dagu / Dagoi (Pay / Mala language)

Papua New Guinea - Dagoi - Dagu - Bogia District - Madang Province - Oceania - Sahul

Sacred / spirit

The same 1921/22 page records a bullroarer at Dagoi; no object image survives.
The same 1921/22 page records a bullroarer at Dagoi; no object image survives. Joseph Schebesta, Parak-Institution im Bogia-Distrikt unter den Sepa, Anthropos 16/17 (1921/22), p. 1054 Public domain Image source

Source term: Schwirrholz

No Dagoi bullroarer name is recorded; Dagu is the residents' name for the village and people

At Dagoi, a Pay-speaking village east of Bogia, the village cult kept no bamboo spirit flute — only a bullroarer, the one hidden voice its ceremonies needed.

Dagoi hat keine Bambusflote, sondern nur ein Schwirrholz.

Dagoi has no bamboo flute but only a bullroarer.

Schebesta 1921/22:1054
Object
Bullroarer; form and material unrecorded.
Function
Present in the Dagoi ceremonial inventory.
Map confidence
high - Modern Dagoi/Dagoi Mission centroid cross-checked against the 1940 and 1952 historical maps; not a performance site.
Source location
printed p. 1054; viewer page 1116

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