The Bullroarer Atlas

No. MUS2026-143

Orang Darat kitiran, cord intact

Indonesia · Manggar, Belitung (Billiton), Bangka–Belitung · Southeast Asia

Function not recorded

A long, flat rectangular wooden slat with a cord threaded through a hole at one end and loosely looped above it.
Plate I. A long flat wooden slat pierced at one end for its whirling cord. CC BY 4.0 · Image source

kitiran

Source term: vinare

kitiran: Orang Darat name recorded for the bullroarer.

This Orang Darat kitiran from Manggar is austerity itself: a plain wooden blade thirty-three centimetres long, pierced at one end, with its whirling cord still threaded in place.

Particulars

Object
Plain flat wooden blade, about 33 cm long, pierced at one end and retaining its whirling cord; SMVK 1935.16.0040.
Function
Specific local use is not recorded.

Source

Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg, 1935.16.0040, 'vinare' (kitiran; Manggar, Belitung; acquired from Axel Wieslander, 1935)

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.