MUS2026-130 - museum specimen
Dividing Point, Alaska antler bullroarer, Yale Peabody
United States - Alaska - Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area - Dividing Point - North America - Subarctic
Function not recorded
Source term: bullroarer
This lower-Yukon bullroarer bends with the natural curve of the antler from which it was cut. It is only 21.6 centimetres long, but carries an eccentric rig: a drilled hole at either end, the two bores set at right angles to one another.
Bone antler bullroarer. 3/8-inch diameter holes at both ends perpendicular to each other. 8 1/2 inches long.
Yale Peabody Museum, YPM ANT 231820, object description.
- Object
- Curved antler bullroarer, 21.6 cm long, with a 3/8-inch terminal bore at each end; the two bores are perpendicular. Yale Peabody Museum YPM ANT 231820.
- Function
- Use not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - USGS/Board on Geographic Names Dividing Point, at the Kozherevsky-Yukon rivers junction.
- Source location
Page references
YPM ANT 231820; Yale IIIF manifest 225222