{"id":"SUBSAH-009","label":"Uganda wooden toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Uganda","country_current":"Uganda","historic_region":"Uganda","macroregion":"Africa / East Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer toy","source_language":"English","object_description":"Wooden toy with cotton suspension cord","function_summary":"Made in Uganda toy bullroarer","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"BM_AF1954_23_3752_UGANDA","source_type":"british_museum_object_search","source_url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1954-23-3752","page_or_plate":"British Museum Collections Online object Af1954,+23.3752","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Uganda country anchor from British Museum production-place metadata; no district, ethnic attribution, collector locality, or use context is public.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A tapering blade of wood, pierced at the narrow end for a cotton cord and split lengthwise at the square end: a bullroarer made in Uganda as a toy. It came to the British Museum in 1954 among the African material from Sir Henry Wellcome's collection, carrying the name of its country and nothing more.","pull_quote":"A toy in the form of a bullroarer made of wood, pierced at the tapering end for a cotton suspension chord, with the square end split longitudinally.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"British Museum, object Af1954,+23.3752 (collection record)","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":"British Museum Af1954,+23.3752 (bullroarer toy, Uganda, 1933)","url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1954-23-3752"}],"source_citations":"British Museum Af1954,+23.3752 (bullroarer toy, Uganda, 1933)","source_display":"British Museum Af1954,+23.3752 (bullroarer toy, Uganda, 1933)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden toy with cotton suspension cord","function_display":"","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"uganda","display_name":"Uganda wooden toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Af1954-23-3752.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Af1954-23-3752_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, thin wooden Ugandan toy bullroarer, broad and split at one end and pierced near its tapering end for a long cotton cord.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (Af1954,+23.3752)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1954-23-3752","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Ugandan toy bullroarer itself — a long, thin tapering blade pierced at the narrow end for its cotton swing-cord."},"slug":"subsah-009-uganda"}