MUS2026-077 - museum specimen
Tojo
Indonesia - Tojo coast, Central Sulawesi - Island SE Asia
Function not recorded
lelempali German / Dutch catalogue
Source term: Schwirrholz
lelempali = Tojo name in Juynboll’s catalogue.
The Tojo lelempali was built to live fast: a fresh fig leaf folded into a narrow blade, stiffened with a curved piece of leaf-rib and sent whirring on a plant fibre. At only 12.5 centimetres long, it worked only while the leaf stayed green; once dry, Kruyt reported, it fell silent.
Schwirrholz (lelempali), bestehend aus einem Stückchen Blatt der Ficus Livingstonia, rechteckig gefaltet
Bullroarer (lelempali), made from a small piece of Ficus livingstonia leaf, folded into a rectangle.
Juynboll, Catalogus ... Celebes (1927), p. 55, acc. 1300/39
- Object
- Fresh folded Ficus livingstonia leaf, 12.5 × 2 cm, with a curved leaf-rib attachment and plant-fibre cord.
- Function
- Whirring leaf instrument; social use not recorded. It sounded only while the leaf remained fresh.
- Map confidence
- high - approximate culture/locality centroid
- Source location
- Juynboll 1927:55, acc. 1300/39