EXH2026-052 - secondary catalog
Ende (Flores)
Indonesia - Central Ende region, Flores - Southeast Asia
Function not recorded
jata English
Source term: jata (bullroarer)
jata: local Ende (Flores) name for the bullroarer, a flat slip of bamboo (New Grove s.v. Jata)
In the central Ende region of Flores, in eastern Indonesia, the bullroarer is a flat piece of bamboo, and its name is jata. That is the whole of what The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments records under the headword: a slip of bamboo, a region, and a name.
Jata. BULLROARER of the central Ende region of Flores, Indonesia. It consists of a flat piece of bamboo
New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, s.v. "Jata"
- Object
- Bullroarer (New Grove: 'It consists...' - entry verbatim-checked).
- Function
- Named bullroarer of the central Ende region (New Grove); function pending Kunst, Music in Flores.
- Map confidence
- medium - central Ende, Flores
- Source location
- New Grove s.v. Jata