Bull roarer

Made:: 1871-1910

Bull roarer, made of wood, with cane loop
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Bull roarer, made of wood, with cane loop, covered with brown pigment and decoarted on one side with anthropomorphic design engraved and inlaid with lime, from Papuan Gulf area, New Guinea, 1871-1910

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655886

Materials:: wood and loop, cane

Measurements:: length 524 mm
max: width 126 mm

type:: bull roarers

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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