The Bullroarer Atlas

SASIA-002 - ethnographic attestation

Malabar bamboo child's toy bullroarer

Malabar - Kerala - South Asia - South India

Play / practical

Ceylonese bullroarer with a slender pointed blade.
Representative — not this record’s object. · Ceylonese bullroarer with a slender pointed blade. Image source

Source term: child's toy bull-roarer

A child's plaything from the Malabar coast: a bull-roarer cut from bamboo, presented to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1919 by V. K. Raman Menon among a miscellany of curiosities. The annual report records only the bare object and its broad region, with no note of who made it or how it was swung.

Child's toy "bull-roarer" of bamboo, Malabar. Presented by V. K. Raman Menon.

Pitt Rivers Museum, Annual Report 1919, Accessions by Donation
Object
PRM 1919.7.1: a Malabar child's bullroarer made from split bamboo, 177 x 18 mm, with terminal binding and loop.
Function
Child toy bullroarer from Malabar presented by V.K. Raman Menon
Map confidence
medium_high - Kozhikode/Malabar regional anchor not Oxford
Source location
Page references

1919 annual report; PRM 1919.7.1

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