MUS2026-065 - museum specimen
Kanum
Indonesia - South Papua (Merauke area) - Oceania - Sahul
Function not recorded
Source term: bull-roarer
Swung fast on its cord, this incised wooden slat throws a deep, pulsing roar into the air — the bullroarer's single trick, everywhere a sound made to carry a spirit or a summons past the edge of a village. Its collector labelled it only as a piece of wood "decorated with motifs." The Kanum who made it hunt wallaby, deer and wild boar across the seasonally flooded Wasur savanna of the Merauke borderland. The roarer reached a Dutch museum before 1954, shelved among ritual gear — but which ceremony this particular voice served, the man who took it never wrote down.
Bromhout met motieven versierd
Wereldmuseum / NMVW RV-3070-93
- Object
- Decorated bromhout / snorrebot of the Kanum, Wereldmuseum / NMVW RV-3070-93.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - approximate culture/locality centroid
- Source location
- RV-3070-93