NAF-003 - museum specimen
Egypt bull-roarer, Blackman collection (Cambridge MAA)
Egypt - Nile Valley - North Africa
Function not recorded
Source term: Bull-roarer
A bull-roarer collected in Egypt by Winifred Susan Blackman (1872-1950) and given to the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1916, accession E 1916.35. Blackman, the older sister of the Egyptologist Aylward Blackman, had just finished her anthropology diploma at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford; she would later lead the Percy Sladen Expedition to Egypt (1922-1926) and write The Fellahin of Upper Egypt (1927), but this object reached Cambridge before that fieldwork. The catalog records the country, the collector, and the object itself, and nothing more: no village, no maker, no material, and no recorded use.
- Object
- Bull-roarer in the Cambridge MAA Blackman collection, accession E 1916.35; accession register also records a bull-roarer.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Broad Egypt/Nile Valley representative anchor; public object page does not provide a narrower locality.
- Source location
- MAA E 1916.35