found: Work cat.: 2017056406: Lewis, T. Becoming a garamut player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea, 2018:ecip ch. 1 (The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea. Garamut is the name for the instrument in the Tok Pisin language (also known as Neo-Melanesian, or Melanesian Pidgin English), the lingua franca of Papua New Guinea; the origins of the name appear to be in the Kuanua language of East New Britain, where it designates both the instrument and the tree species that it is commonly carved from. The Manus Province is where the garamut is used in large ensembles to play complex music for dancing. In Baluan Island, within the Manus Province, this style of garamut playing is comparatively highly developed)
found: Ethnographica WWW site, Jan. 19, 2018(This beautifully decorated garamut slit-drum, made from a hollowed tree trunk, not only serves as the main musical instrument for the indigenous population of Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea -- as part of its rhythmic qualities, it also serves other communicative purposes, as it was traditionally used to convey practical messages of life and death, as well as mythical stories, within and between villages)
