No. AAS2008-001South Asia
Taru Thang held-implement figure
India · Upper Ladakh [Zhungkor], Ladakh Union Territory · South Asia
Function not recorded Candidate only
Source term: tjurunga / bullroarer
tjurunga — Central Australian name for a sacred bullroarer or carved board.
High in Upper Ladakh's Trans-Himalayan desert, human figures stride across a weathered rock panel. One holds the object that makes this carving so unusual: a bullroarer. No sound or motion survives in the stone, only a raised implement in a human hand.
One of the human figures is holding what can be interpreted as a tjurunga, a bullroarer (Scandinavian 'brummer').
Lars Reinholt Aas, The Rock Carvings of Taru Thang (MA thesis, University of Bergen, 2008), p. 40
Particulars
- Object
- A pecked human figure on rock panel p315 at Taru Thang holds an object interpreted as a bullroarer.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Lars Reinholt Aas, The Rock Carvings of Taru Thang: The Mountain Goat: A Religious and Social Symbol of the Dardic Speaking People of the Trans-Himalayas, MA thesis in archaeology, University of Bergen, 2008, p. 40 and fig. 4.4