No. SEA-006
Makasae (Makasai)
Timor-Leste · Baguia, Baucau District, East Timor · Southeast Asia · Lesser Sundas
Function not recorded
mumu
mumu — the Makasae name for this bull-roarer.
A bamboo bull-roarer twenty-two centimetres long, strung on a twisted cord and incised with a bird, collected at Baguia in the mountains of eastern Timor on Alfred Bühler's 1935 expedition for the Basel museum. The Makasae called it mumu. What the Makasae swung it for is lost — unlike its cousin from Rote, gathered on the same expedition, which was a children's toy.
Particulars
- Object
- Bamboo bull-roarer with twisted cord and an incised bird design, L 22cm, collected at Baguia by the Bühler expedition 1935 (Museum der Kulturen Basel, acc. IIc 6268).
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Museum der Kulturen Basel, IIc 6268 (Makasae, Baguia; collected by Alfred Bühler, 1935); Barrkman 2018, 'Return to Baguia' (PhD thesis)