Calcutta toy bullroarer

Source term: toy bull-roarer

A city plaything: a bamboo blade the length of a hand, hung by a string from a separate stick about forty centimetres long, whirled as a toy in Calcutta. It reached the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1924 from F.A. Richards of the Indian Civil Service, together with a second Indian whirling noisemaker — a child's buzzer of doubled palm-leaf from the Madras Presidency that hummed when swung on its cord.

toy bull-roarer, Calcutta. Presented by F.A. Richards, M.A., I.C.S.

Pitt Rivers Museum Annual Report 1924, Accessions by Donation

Particulars

Object

A toy bullroarer with a 230 mm bamboo blade, its string, and a separate 414 mm handstick (PRM 1924.42.7).

Function

A toy, whirled in Calcutta.