The Bullroarer Atlas

NAF-003 - museum specimen

Egypt; Winifred Susan Blackman collection

Egypt - Nile Valley - North Africa

Function not recorded

A plain rectangular wooden block bound with cloth strips, its field tag noting a 1913 acquisition — shown for the general North African form;...
Representative image. A plain rectangular wooden block bound with cloth strips, its field tag noting a 1913 acquisition — shown for the general North African form; the Blackman collection's Egyptian bull-roarer, entered in Cambridge's registers, remains unphotographed. © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 2005.61.2) Image source

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

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