{"id":"SEA-007","label":"Rote (Roti)","people_or_site":"Rote (Roti)","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Southwest Rote island (off SW Timor), Nusa Tenggara Timur","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Lesser Sundas","local_name":"babak","source_term":"babak","source_language":"","object_description":"Bamboo bull-roarer (slat with cord), L 24.6cm, collected on SW Rote by the Bühler expedition 1935 (Museum der Kulturen Basel, acc. IIc 3837).","function_summary":"A child's toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mining2026","source_type":"museum","source_url":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch?queryid=d6b6718c-7db0-4d61-aa14-63e01cb92d5a","page_or_plate":"MKB IIc 3837","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate territory centroid (mining 2026)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A bamboo bull-roarer, a slat just under 25 centimetres long strung on a cord, collected on the southwest coast of Rote (Roti), the small island off the southwest end of Timor. It was acquired in 1935 by Alfred Bühler, then a Basel commercial-school teacher commissioned by the city's ethnographic museum to document the crafts and material culture of Timor, Rote and Flores. The piece carries the local name babak, and the collection card answers for its use in two words: Kinderspielzeug — a child's plaything.","pull_quote":"Schwirrholz. Kinderspielzeug.","pull_quote_translation":"Bull-roarer. Children's toy.","pull_quote_cite":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, catalogue card IIc 3837","term_gloss":"babak — the Rote (Roti) name for this bamboo 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":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, IIc 3837 ('Schwirrholz; Kinderspielzeug'; local name babak)","url":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch?queryid=d6b6718c-7db0-4d61-aa14-63e01cb92d5a","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013030400/https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch?queryid=d6b6718c-7db0-4d61-aa14-63e01cb92d5a"}],"source_citations":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, IIc 3837 ('Schwirrholz; Kinderspielzeug'; local name babak)","source_display":"Museum der Kulturen Basel, IIc 3837 ('Schwirrholz; Kinderspielzeug'; local name babak)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bamboo bull-roarer (slat with cord), L 24.6cm, collected on SW Rote by the Bühler expedition 1935 (Museum der Kulturen Basel, acc. IIc 3837).","function_display":"A child's toy.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"rote","display_name":"Rote (Roti)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MINE2026-017.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MINE2026-017_thumb.jpg","credit":"Museum der Kulturen Basel","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://onlinecollection.mkb.ch/#/query/65bae769-35cd-43ff-9b57-7341de936c8b","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Basel museum's 1935 card for the babak, with a pen sketch of the bamboo slat and its cord."},"slug":"sea-007-rote-roti"}