No. NAAIN-004
Rappahannock blade of tidewater Virginia
United States · Virginia · North America · Eastern Woodlands
Function not recorded
Source term: Bullroarer
A carved wooden bullroarer from the Rappahannock of tidewater Virginia, collected by the anthropologist Frank G. Speck and now in the National Museum of the American Indian. Speck's monograph on the Rappahannock themselves never mentions a bullroarer, but in his broader 1928 study of the Powhatan tribes he illustrated the instrument among the neighboring Mattaponi, showing what he labeled the old and the new types side by side.
Particulars
- Object
- Carved wood bullroarer collected by Frank G. Speck
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 20/5079 (Rappahannock, Virginia; collected by Frank G. Speck)