{"id":"SUBSAH-032","label":"The Powell-Cotton sisters' Angolan roarer","people_or_site":"Mbundu, Angola (Powell-Cotton collection)","country_current":"Angola","historic_region":"Angola (Portuguese West Africa)","macroregion":"Africa / Southern Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"","object_description":"A wooden bullroarer on a fibre string, 18.2 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm, made by Mbundu people in Angola about 1920-1936; British Museum Af1937,0312.71, from the Powell-Cotton Angola collection (Powell-Cotton no. PC.438).","function_summary":"Function not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"bm_af1937_0312_71","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1937-0312-71","page_or_plate":"British Museum registration no. Af1937,0312.71; series described in Braunholtz 1937, p. 163","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative regional anchor for southern Angola, the documented working area of the Powell-Cotton sisters' 1936-37 expedition (northern Namibia and southern Angola, the Cunene / Huila / Kwanyama-Nyaneka-Humbi border country), from which this Af1937,0312 series originates. The British Museum gives only 'Angola' as the place; no findspot, district or village is recorded for this object, so this is a regional anchor, not a collection locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A wooden bullroarer eighteen centimetres long, strung on fibre, made by Mbundu people in Angola some time between about 1920 and 1936. It came to the British Museum in 1937 from the first Angolan expedition of Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton, two English sisters who travelled the southern Angolan and northern Namibian borderlands collecting and filming the life of the villages they passed through.","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":"British Museum, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Af1937,0312.71","url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1937-0312-71"},{"citation":"Braunholtz, British Museum Quarterly 11(4) (1937), p. 163"}],"source_citations":"British Museum, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Af1937,0312.71; Braunholtz, British Museum Quarterly 11(4) (1937), p. 163","source_display":"British Museum, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Af1937,0312.71; Braunholtz, British Museum Quarterly 11(4) (1937), p. 163","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden bullroarer on a fibre string, 18.2 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm, made by Mbundu people in Angola about 1920-1936; British Museum Af1937,0312.71, from the Powell-Cotton Angola collection (Powell-Cotton no. PC.438).","function_display":"Function not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mbundu","display_name":"The Powell-Cotton sisters' Angolan roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Af1937-0312-71.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Af1937-0312-71_thumb.jpg","alt":"Long orange-brown wooden bullroarer collected in Angola in 1937, with a pointed blade, cord at one end and several fibre strips wrapped around its middle.","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (E/Af1937-0312-71)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1937-0312-71","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Bullroarer collected in Angola for the British Museum among the Powell-Cotton material, 1937."},"slug":"subsah-032-southern-angola-powell-cotton-collection"}