MUS2026-165 - museum specimen
Château-Chervix Rofla bullroarer photograph
France - Limousin - Haute-Vienne - Château-Chervix - Europe
Function not recorded
Rofla French
Source term: rhombe en bois et ficelle
Rofla: quoted name in the Mucem title; language and literal meaning not verified
A long chestnut board, one edge cut into deep saw-teeth, its cord knotted through one of three holes bored near the end — Pierre Lallet made it in 1980, and the photographer André Pelle found it that same year at Château-Chervix in the Haute-Vienne countryside. The Mucem archive titles the picture with a single word: Rofla.
Rofla. Rhombe en bois et ficelle.
Rofla. Wooden bullroarer and string.
Mucem Ph.1983.1.1
- Object
- Mucem object 1981.54.4: a rectangular chestnut rhombe tapering at the tip, its sides saw-toothed toward one end, with three holes of which one keeps the cord; made by Pierre Lallet in 1980 and photographed the same year at Château-Chervix by André Pelle (Ph.1983.1.1).
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - OpenStreetMap Château-Chervix administrative-relation centroid matching the Mucem place field; not a documented performance site.
- Source location
Page references
Ph.1983.1.1; Mucem c/3074591; object 1981.54.4 / Mucem c/75100