No. MUS2026-186
Bristol carved bullroarer
United Kingdom · Bristol · Europe
Play / practical
Source term: Bullroarer
Whittled to a spear point, notched like a saw along its edge and barely an inch wide, the Bristol blade keeps its string wound tight around its butt end. A Miss Jessop of Oxford's High Street donated it in 1905; a slip of the pen numbered it wrongly on arrival, and when curators corrected the error almost a century later the old digits refused to come off. It stands on open display in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Particulars
- Object
- Narrow carved wooden blade, 141 x 25 mm, notched along its profile and tapering to a point, with its cord wound around the suspension end.
- Function
- Boys' toy, whirled on a long string for its noise.
Source
Pitt Rivers Museum 1905.61.1; donated 1905 by Miss Jessop