No. MUS2026-350
Blade with a white-filled head motif
Papua New Guinea · New Guinea; locality unrecorded · Oceania
Function not recorded
Source term: Bullroarer
Cut deep and packed with white, the curling design at the head of this blade still resolves into something like a face. Fifty-nine centimetres long and eight wide, it was carved to be read at a glance — and then swung on a cord until nobody could see it at all.
Particulars
- Object
- A pointed wooden blade, 59.1 × 8.2 cm, with a deeply cut, white-filled curvilinear face or head motif.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Musical Instruments Museum Brussels / MIMO 1976.027-01; 59.1 × 8.2 cm