{"id":"NAF-003","label":"Winifred Blackman's Egyptian roarer","people_or_site":"Egypt; Winifred Susan Blackman collection","country_current":"Egypt","historic_region":"Egypt / Nile Valley","macroregion":"Africa / North Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"Bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bull-roarer in the Cambridge MAA Blackman collection, accession E 1916.35.","function_summary":"Function not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"MAA_E_1916_35","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/582824/","page_or_plate":"MAA E 1916.35","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Egypt/Nile Valley representative anchor; public object page does not provide a narrower locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Winifred Susan Blackman (1872-1950) collected this bull-roarer in Egypt and gave it to the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1916, accession E 1916.35, when she had just taken her anthropology diploma at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. She was the older sister of the Egyptologist Aylward Blackman, and her own work was still ahead of her: the Percy Sladen Expedition to Egypt, which she led from 1922 to 1926, and The Fellahin of Upper Egypt, the book she made of it in 1927. The roarer reached England before any of that, with no address but Egypt.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Cambridge MAA, E 1916.35, Bull-roarer; collector and donor Winifred Susan Blackman","url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/582824/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013131308/https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/582824/"}],"source_citations":"Cambridge MAA, E 1916.35, Bull-roarer; collector and donor Winifred Susan Blackman","source_display":"Cambridge MAA, E 1916.35, Bull-roarer; collector and donor Winifred Susan Blackman","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bull-roarer in the Cambridge MAA Blackman collection, accession E 1916.35.","function_display":"Function not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"egypt","display_name":"Winifred Blackman's Egyptian roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_213921.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_213921_thumb.jpg","alt":"A plain rectangular wooden block bound with cloth strips.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 2005.61.2)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-213921","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A plain rectangular wooden block bound with cloth strips."},"slug":"naf-003-egypt-winifred-susan-blackman-collection"}