Winifred Blackman's Egyptian roarer

Source term: Bull-roarer

Winifred Susan Blackman (1872-1950) collected this bull-roarer in Egypt and gave it to the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1916, accession E 1916.35, when she had just taken her anthropology diploma at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. She was the older sister of the Egyptologist Aylward Blackman, and her own work was still ahead of her: the Percy Sladen Expedition to Egypt, which she led from 1922 to 1926, and The Fellahin of Upper Egypt, the book she made of it in 1927. The roarer reached England before any of that, with no address but Egypt.

Particulars

Object

Bull-roarer in the Cambridge MAA Blackman collection, accession E 1916.35.

Function

Function not recorded.