No. SEA-007
Rote (Roti)
Indonesia · Southwest Rote island (off SW Timor), Nusa Tenggara Timur · Southeast Asia · Lesser Sundas
Play / practical
babak
babak — the Rote (Roti) name for this bamboo bull-roarer.
A bamboo bull-roarer, a slat just under 25 centimetres long strung on a cord, collected on the southwest coast of Rote (Roti), the small island off the southwest end of Timor. It was acquired in 1935 by Alfred Bühler, then a Basel commercial-school teacher commissioned by the city's ethnographic museum to document the crafts and material culture of Timor, Rote and Flores. The piece carries the local name babak, and the collection card answers for its use in two words: Kinderspielzeug — a child's plaything.
Schwirrholz. Kinderspielzeug.
Bull-roarer. Children's toy.
Museum der Kulturen Basel, catalogue card IIc 3837
Particulars
- Object
- Bamboo bull-roarer (slat with cord), L 24.6cm, collected on SW Rote by the Bühler expedition 1935 (Museum der Kulturen Basel, acc. IIc 3837).
- Function
- A child's toy.
Source
Museum der Kulturen Basel, IIc 3837 ('Schwirrholz; Kinderspielzeug'; local name babak)