SUBSAH-006 - museum specimen
Luba Tambo palm-leaf bullroarer
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Luba country - Tambo register note - Central Africa
Function not recorded
possibly Tambo English
Source term: bullroarer
'Tambo' appears on the museum register beside this object; its meaning is unknown.
A bullroarer cut from a palm-leaf stem, collected among the Luba during Emil Torday's 1907-1909 expedition to the Kasai Basin for the British Museum and registered there in 1909. The museum's entry carries the field note "BaLuba. Tambo." and nothing more: no rite, no spirit, no occasion is recorded for it. The material and the register line are all that came back with it.
- Object
- Bullroarer made of palm leaf stem
- Function
- Use not recorded.
- Map confidence
- low_medium - Broad Luba regional anchor not British Museum
- Source location
Page references
British Museum object-page search result; British Museum Luba term page