SUBSAH-009 - museum specimen
Uganda
Uganda - East Africa
Play / practical
Source term: bullroarer toy
A wooden bullroarer from Uganda in the British Museum is catalogued not as a sacred instrument but as a toy: a tapering blade pierced at one end for a cotton cord, its square end split lengthwise. It reached the museum in 1954 among the African material from Sir Henry Wellcome's collection, and the record gives no ethnic group, district, or local name — only that it was made in Uganda.
A toy in the form of a bullroarer made of wood, pierced at the tapering end for a cotton suspension chord, with the square end split longitudinally.
British Museum, object Af1954,23.3752 (collection record)
- Object
- Wooden toy with cotton suspension cord
- Function
- Made in Uganda toy bullroarer
- Map confidence
- low - Uganda country anchor from British Museum production-place metadata; no district, ethnic attribution, collector locality, or use context is public.
- Source location
- British Museum Collections Online object Af1954,+23.3752; term-page search result checked 2026-06-01.
- Toy / secular survival