Accession No

1928.590

Description

Rough frayed bark cloth strip wrapped round two bunches of green no-longer scented leaves ("ma senanas"), bunches fastened by coil of creeper at one end. Also inside cloth ("maindetki") are two thin splinter-like bull-roarers ("ma salega' "), which have a piercing through their squared off ends and a tapering curve at their opposite ends. One bull-roarer is made of black palm, the other of a pale wood. Cloth bundle fastened loosely by hitching free end under a coil binding. Cloth very old and worn. Original accession notes: " Came in boy's basket, 28.587. Packet wrapped in bark cloth MAINDSIKI, with 2 bullroarers and 2 small bundles of scented leaves as put in arm band when masked, not known to women." Good

Place

Oceania; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago; New Britain; Gazelle Peninsula; Latramat

Period

Source

Department

Anth

Reference Numbers

1928.590; 12D

Cultural Affliation

T=Uramot Baining

Material

Wood; Palm Wood; Bark; Leaf; Cloth

Local Term

MAINDETKI

Measurements

Events