Bull roarer

Museum number:
5-5745a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21055745a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.1343
Description:
Leather Moslem prayer boxes, each with stamped geometrical designs and attached "Z" twist leather thongs; (a) cylindrical 4.5 cm. in diameter and 6.5 cm in length; (b) rectangular, 6.5 x 3.5 x 2.0 cm.
Donor:
Matilda M. Brooks
Collection place:
Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, unspecified
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bull-roarers
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bull roarer, accession number 5-5745a,b, described as Leather Moslem prayer boxes, each with stamped geometrical designs and attached "Z" twist leather thongs; (a) cylindrical 4.5 cm. in diameter and 6.5 cm in length; (b) rectangular, 6.5 x 3.5 x 2.0 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bull roarer, accession number 5-5745a,b, described as Leather Moslem prayer boxes, each with stamped geometrical designs and attached "Z" twist leather thongs; (a) cylindrical 4.5 cm. in diameter and 6.5 cm in length; (b) rectangular, 6.5 x 3.5 x 2.0 cm.

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