The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-109 - museum specimen

Mentawai

Indonesia - Pagai Islands, Mentawai Islands - Island SE Asia

Function not recorded

A long slender stick strung at one end with a small diamond-shaped wooden blade — a Kenyah/Klemantan child's bull-roarer from the Baram River,...
Representative image. A long slender stick strung at one end with a small diamond-shaped wooden blade — a Kenyah/Klemantan child's bull-roarer from the Baram River, Sarawak, shown for the general Island Southeast Asian form; not the Mentawai instrument from the Pagai Islands documented here. © The Trustees of the British Museum (A/As1905-630) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Image source

Source term: bull-roarer

A bull-roarer collected from the Mentawai of the Pagai Islands, off the west coast of Sumatra, and held in the Smithsonian's anthropology collection. No use or ritual context was recorded for it.

Object
Bull-roarer of the Mentawai, Smithsonian (NMNH/NMAI).
Function
Not recorded.
Map confidence
medium - approximate culture/locality centroid
Source location
nmnhanthropology_8364845 / ark:/65665/3b0c69735-2a63-4d4f-bdf6-a089dd53d1cd

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