The Bullroarer Atlas

NAGA-002 - museum specimen

Konyak / Shiong village

Naga Hills - present Nagaland - South Asia - Northeast India

Play / practical

Konyak Naga bull-roarer, Shiong village. PRM 1928.69.606.
Konyak Naga bull-roarer, Shiong village. PRM 1928.69.606. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1928.69.606); Cambridge Naga Exploratour Image source

Source term: bull-roarer

A wooden bull-roarer 43 centimetres long, fitted with a cane handle and worked with notches and incised decoration, collected at the Konyak village of Shiong by J.H. Hutton and now in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford. The catalogue records it as a boy's toy that was already passing out of use — "a boy's toy now becoming obsolete."

Wooden bull-roarer with cane handle, notches and incised decorations. A boy's toy now becoming obsolete.

Pitt Rivers Museum 1923.85.582 (Hutton collection), Cambridge Naga Database catalogue record
Object
Wooden bullroarer with cane handle notches and incised decoration
Function
Boys toy becoming obsolete
Map confidence
medium_high - Shiong village source locality not museum
Source location
collection listing C623

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