The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-112 - museum specimen

Mesbilja blade, bare essentials

Mexico - Mesbilja, Oxchuc, Chiapas - North America

Function not recorded

The Mesbilja bullroarer UEM41249/b: a flat wooden blade with a single cord attached at one end.
The Mesbilja bullroarer UEM41249/b: a flat wooden blade with a single cord attached at one end. · CC BY-SA Image source
The second Mesbilja whirler, UEM41249/a: a plain tapered slat on its long cotton cord.
The second Mesbilja whirler, UEM41249/a: a plain tapered slat on its long cotton cord. · CC BY-SA Image source

Source term: summetre / brummer

summetre / brummer = museum object categories; no local name is recorded.

This bullroarer is reduced to its bare essentials: a straight, hand-cut strip of wood, blunt at one end and pierced at the other, with a long twisted cord still knotted through the hole.

summetre; brummer; musikkinstrument

bullroarer / whirring instrument; musical instrument

Kulturhistorisk museum Oslo, UEM41249/b, DiMu UUID ded1e019-47b3-47ea-8796-045010e8b293
Object
Flat wooden blade with a single cord attached at one end; Kulturhistorisk museum Oslo UEM41249/b.
Function
Not recorded.
Source
Kulturhistorisk museum Oslo / DiMu UEM41249/b (UUID ded1e019-47b3-47ea-8796-045010e8b293): use-place Mexico > Chiapas > Mesbilja; wood, plant material, and unknown fibre
Source location
Page references

DiMu UUID ded1e019-47b3-47ea-8796-045010e8b293 / UEM41249/b

Source confidence
high Mesbilja locality in the museum’s use-place hierarchy.

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