{"id":"EXH2026-050","label":"Korana burubush, swung by its cord","people_or_site":"Korana (!Kora Khoekhoe)","country_current":"South Africa","historic_region":"Middle Orange River (!Kora country)","macroregion":"Africa / Southern Africa","local_name":"burubush","source_term":"burubush (bull-roarer)","source_language":"English","object_description":"A crudely made bull-roarer swung by its cord alone, with no handle; Kirby photographed the Korana boy who owned it holding the instrument.","function_summary":"A boy’s plaything; Kirby observed it in use at Bloemhof.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"exhaustiveness2026","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/musical-instruments-of-the-indigenous-people-of-south-africa/bullroarers-and-spinningdisks/ED2B88467E534BAE96CCFC45E0C499CD","page_or_plate":"Kirby 2013 ed., p. 100; fig. 4.2 no. 7 and fig. 4.4 (photograph of the Korana boy); cf. Kirby, Bantu Studies vi(2) (1932), p. 195","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"middle Orange River, Korana country","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A Korana boy at Bloemhof held the cord itself as he whirled his bullroarer. Kirby photographed him with the instrument: a crudely made blade, its string left free of the handle used on the other roarers he illustrated. The Korana called it burubush, a name whose rolling sound has close companions in the seburuburu of the Tswana and the sevuruvuru of the Sotho.","pull_quote":"There are to-day, so far as I can discover, no rituals in which the instrument is used, and no taboos regarding its employment... For the most part it is nowadays looked upon as a child's toy.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"P. R. Kirby, The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa (1934; 3rd ed. 2013), \"Bull-Roarers and Spinning-Disks\" (ch. 4), p. 98","term_gloss":"burubush — Korana (!Kora Khoekhoe) name for the bull-roarer.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Percival R. Kirby, “Bull-Roarers and Spinning-Disks,” in The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa (1934; 3rd ed., Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2013), pp. 98–103, figs. 4.2 no. 7 and 4.4","url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/musical-instruments-of-the-indigenous-people-of-south-africa/bullroarers-and-spinningdisks/ED2B88467E534BAE96CCFC45E0C499CD","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220503132159/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/musical-instruments-of-the-indigenous-people-of-south-africa/bullroarers-and-spinningdisks/ED2B88467E534BAE96CCFC45E0C499CD"},{"citation":"Percival R. Kirby, Bantu Studies VI(2) (1932), p. 195"}],"source_citations":"Percival R. Kirby, “Bull-Roarers and Spinning-Disks,” in The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa (1934; 3rd ed., Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2013), pp. 98–103, figs. 4.2 no. 7 and 4.4; Percival R. Kirby, Bantu Studies VI(2) (1932), p. 195","source_display":"Percival R. Kirby, “Bull-Roarers and Spinning-Disks,” in The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa (1934; 3rd ed., Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2013), pp. 98–103, figs. 4.2 no. 7 and 4.4; Percival R. Kirby, Bantu Studies VI(2) (1932), p. 195","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A crudely made bull-roarer swung by its cord alone, with no handle; Kirby photographed the Korana boy who owned it holding the instrument.","function_display":"A boy’s plaything; Kirby observed it in use at Bloemhof.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"korana","display_name":"Korana burubush, swung by its cord","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_39577.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_39577_thumb.jpg","alt":"Tapering wooden blade with a painted zigzag border and bound cord.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1933.57.9)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39577","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Tapering wooden blade with a painted zigzag border and bound cord."},"slug":"exh2026-050-korana-kora-khoekhoe"}