SEA-013 - museum specimen
Thai-Lue
Phaed Village, Chiengkham District (then Chiengrai Province), North Thailand - Southeast Asia
Play / practical
In Phaed village in northern Thailand, Thai-Lue children spun a bullroarer built as a bundle: seven short bamboo pipes set in pitch around a hollow stem, so the whole cluster sounds at once on its long twirling cord. Its maker finished it with what was at hand, pressing the red-and-gold wrapper of a chocolate bar over the top for decoration and tying a tail of red cloth to the cord's end. The museum catalogued it simply: children's toy.
- Object
- YPM ANT 207238: seven short bamboo pipes fixed with pitch around a hollow bamboo stem, decorated with a chocolate-bar wrapper, with a separate long twirling cord ending in a red cloth tail.
- Function
- Children's toy.
- Map confidence
- high - Chiang Kham district centre; Phaed village lies within the district (exact village point not located).
- Source location
- YPM ANT 207238