The Bullroarer Atlas

NAGA-003 - museum specimen

Angami / Khonoma village

Naga Hills - present Nagaland - South Asia - Northeast India

Play / practical

Roy’s Illustration 17 item 1 is the 19-inch Angami bullroarer from Khonoma, recorded as a toy.
Roy’s Illustration 17 item 1 is the 19-inch Angami bullroarer from Khonoma, recorded as a toy. S. C. Roy, Oraon Religion and Customs (1928), Illustration 17; specimens supplied by J. H. Hutton Public domain Image source

Source term: bull-roarer

A single bull-roarer, 41 centimetres long, collected in 1922 by J. H. Hutton at the Angami village of Khonoma in the Naga Hills and now in the Pitt Rivers Museum. The catalogue records no ritual use: it was swung as a toy by boys, or used for scaring birds.

Bull-roarer used as a toy by boys or for scaring birds. Angami, Khonoma village.

Cambridge Naga Database, Pitt Rivers Museum collection record (collected J. H. Hutton, 1922)
Object
41 cm bullroarer, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, acc. 1923.84.958; collected and donated by J. H. Hutton, 1922-23 gift. Cambridge Naga Database photograph record C624.
Function
Boys toy or bird-scarer
Map confidence
high - Khonoma village source locality not museum
Source location
collection listing C624 | PRM acc. 1923.84.958; Roy 1928 Illustration 17 item 1

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