Bullroarer

Museum number:
11-2112
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.638
Description:
Bull roarer with cotton covering, design colored with human blood. Decorated bull roarer look like cotton wool of European origin, rather than “bush” kapok.
Donor:
William Lloyd Warner
Collection place:
Northeast Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Culture or time period:
Aboriginal Australians
Collector:
William Lloyd Warner
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bull-roarers
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1929
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bullroarer, accession number 11-2112, described as Bull roarer with cotton covering, design colored with human blood. Decorated bull roarer look like cotton wool of European origin, rather than “bush” kapok.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bullroarer, accession number 11-2112, described as Bull roarer with cotton covering, design colored with human blood. Decorated bull roarer look like cotton wool of European origin, rather than “bush” kapok.

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