{"id":"MUS2026-186","label":"Bristol carved bullroarer","people_or_site":"English folk / Bristol","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Bristol","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Narrow carved wooden blade, 141 x 25 mm, notched along its profile and tapering to a point, with its cord wound around the suspension end.","function_summary":"Boys' toy, whirled on a long string for its noise.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"prm_1905_61_1_bristol","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39629","page_or_plate":"PRM 1905.61.1","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap City of Bristol anchor; the museum records only city-level provenance.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Whittled to a spear point, notched like a saw along its edge and barely an inch wide, the Bristol blade keeps its string wound tight around its butt end. A Miss Jessop of Oxford's High Street donated it in 1905; a slip of the pen numbered it wrongly on arrival, and when curators corrected the error almost a century later the old digits refused to come off. It stands on open display in the Pitt Rivers Museum.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","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":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1905.61.1; donated 1905 by Miss Jessop","url":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39629","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39628"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1905.61.1; donated 1905 by Miss Jessop","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1905.61.1; donated 1905 by Miss Jessop","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Narrow carved wooden blade, 141 x 25 mm, notched along its profile and tapering to a point, with its cord wound around the suspension end.","function_display":"Boys' toy, whirled on a long string for its noise.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"Bristol carved bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-186_mus2026-186-prm-1905-61-1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-186_mus2026-186-prm-1905-61-1_thumb.jpg","alt":"Small carved Bristol bullroarer with a dark tapered blade, scalloped edges and cord wound around its broad end.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1905.61.1","license":"Rights reserved (© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford); rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39629","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Bristol carved bullroarer, Pitt Rivers Museum."},"slug":"mus2026-186-english-folk-bristol"}