No. SUBSAH-004
Kambari Northern Nigeria child toy bullroarer
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. Kambari children whirled it as a plain plaything, made in the Northern Provinces; it reached London with the Nigerian material assembled by Charles Kingsley Meek, then a Government Anthropologist in the colonial service.
Particulars
- Object
- Child's bullroarer toy made of reed.
- Function
- Child toy bullroarer
Source
British Museum Af1926,0414.41 (Kambari, Northern Provinces, Nigeria)