AUSIN-001 - museum specimen
Burdekin River near Townsville BM Oc1977-03-1
Australia - North Queensland
Function not recorded
Source term: bull-roarer
A wooden bullroarer from the Burdekin River near Townsville, in North Queensland: carved on both faces, coloured with red pigment, and pierced at one end where a length of twisted hair string was threaded through to swing it. It reached the British Museum through Collingwood Ingram, who collected it in 1902, when he was barely past twenty. Ingram, who went on to a long career as an ornithologist, knew the lower Burdekin: he later published on the birds of Inkerman Station, on the river's delta, while his father, Sir William Ingram, employed the naturalist Wilfred Stalker to collect bird skins across the same country. The museum's locality is the district, not the spot where the instrument was made or last sounded.
On the Birds of Inkerman Station, North Queensland
Ingram, Ibis (1908): article title
- Object
- Wood bullroarer with fibre and pigment in British Museum collection
- Function
- Material object from Burdekin River or Townsville locality; use as north Queensland object anchor
- Map confidence
- medium_high - Townsville city anchor for Burdekin River near Townsville locality
- Source location
- British Museum object record Oc1977-03-1