MUS2026-081 - museum specimen
Bristol Bay provenance (historic catalogue: Eskimo)
United States - Bristol Bay, Alaska - North America
Play / practical
Source term: bull-roarer
A wooden handle and leaf-shaped blade from Bristol Bay remain linked by a strand of commercial thread, now broken. Penn catalogued the assembly as a toy/model after it reached Philadelphia in an 1895 exchange with the United States National Museum.
Wooden handle with wooden bull roarer. Commercial thread joining the two is broken.
Penn Museum, object record 18400 ("Toy, Model, Bull-Roarer")
- Object
- Wooden handle with a wooden bull-roarer joined by commercial thread, now broken (Penn Museum 18400).
- Function
- Catalogued as a toy/model; no further use recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Bristol Bay regional anchor; the museum gives no community or exact collection point.
- Source location
- 18400
- Toy / secular survival