MUS2026-325 - museum specimen
Upper Watut bark-fibre bullroarer
Oceania -> Melanesia -> Papua New Guinea, East New Guinea Upper Watut River - Sahul
Function not recorded
Source term: Bullroarer
Blade and cord usually part company long before a bullroarer reaches a museum shelf. This one never did: twenty-three centimetres of Anga wood from the Upper Watut, still rigged with the bark-fibre line that made it speak. The string is the cheap, perishable, replaceable half of the instrument and the half that almost never survives — and without it a bullroarer is only a shaped board.
- Object
- An Anga wooden bullroarer, 230 × 45 mm, still strung with its bark-fibre cord.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Source
- Pitt Rivers Museum 2006.87.1; An Anga wooden bullroarer, 230 × 45 mm, with its bark-fibre string
- Source location
- 2006.87.1
- Source confidence
- medium Upper Watut River regional anchor from the exact record.