SUBSAH-004 - museum specimen
Kambari
Northern Provinces of Nigeria - West Africa
Play / practical
Source term: bull-roarer
A child's bull-roarer cut from reed, collected among the Kambari of Northern Nigeria and registered at the British Museum in 1926. It came in with the Nigerian material assembled by Charles Kingsley Meek, then a Government Anthropologist in the colonial service, and the register places its making in the Northern Provinces; the exact village is not recorded. It is logged plainly as a toy.
- Object
- Childs bullroarer toy made of reed
- Function
- Child toy bullroarer
- Map confidence
- medium - Kambari northern Nigeria regional anchor not British Museum
- Source location
- British Museum Af1926,0414.41 (Kambari)
- Toy / secular survival