The Bullroarer Atlas

No. SUBSAH-009

Uganda wooden toy bullroarer

Uganda · East Africa

Play / practical

A long, thin wooden Ugandan toy bullroarer, broad and split at one end and pierced near its tapering end for a long cotton cord.
Plate I. The Ugandan toy bullroarer itself — a long, thin tapering blade pierced at the narrow end for its cotton swing-cord. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Image source

Source term: bullroarer toy

A tapering blade of wood, pierced at the narrow end for a cotton cord and split lengthwise at the square end: a bullroarer made in Uganda as a toy. It came to the British Museum in 1954 among the African material from Sir Henry Wellcome's collection, carrying the name of its country and nothing more.

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)

Particulars

Object
Wooden toy with cotton suspension cord

Source

British Museum Af1954,+23.3752 (bullroarer toy, Uganda, 1933)

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.