The Bullroarer Atlas

MUS2026-143 - museum specimen

Orang Darat

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

Function not recorded

A long flat wooden slat pierced at one end for its whirling cord — the Orang Darat bull-roarer called kitiran, from Manggar on the island of...
A long flat wooden slat pierced at one end for its whirling cord — the Orang Darat bull-roarer called kitiran, from Manggar on the island of Belitung, purchased for the Gothenburg collection in 1935. Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg / SMVK (1935.16.0040) CC BY 4.0 Image source

kitiran Swedish

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.

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.
Map confidence
medium_high - Manggar, on the east coast of Belitung (Billiton) island — the provenance named on the museum record; town-level anchor.
Source location
1935.16.0040

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