MUS2026-150 - museum specimen
Grass Country regional provenance (community unrecorded)
Papua New Guinea - Grass Country between the Sepik and Keram rivers, East Sepik - Oceania
Function not recorded
Source term: bullroarer
bullroarer: English Yale object type; no local name is recorded.
Its fibre cord is still knotted through the pierced end, ready to spin again: a long, dark wooden blade, plain but for a band of toothed carving near its head, from the Grass Country — the swampy grassland plain between the lower Sepik and the Keram rivers, a region of many small peoples rather than any single one.
Bullroarer. Carved wood with fibers tied through the hole at one end.
Yale Peabody Museum, YPM ANT 249221, object description.
- Object
- Long carved wooden slat with fibres tied through a hole at one end; no reliable size repeated because the Yale label's dimensions conflict.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Kambaramba village anchor within the named Grass Country region, used only as a regional anchor; Yale does not name it as the object's source.
- Source location
- YPM ANT 249221; Yale IIIF manifest 242734