SUBSAH-011 - related instrument
Gabon
Gabon - Central Africa
Function not recorded
Source term: Bromhout
The Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels holds a wooden blade just over half a metre long — 52 centimetres by 8.4, and 2.6 thick — catalogued as a bullroarer from Gabon and dated only "before 1976." Nothing else is recorded: no people, no locality, no name for the rite or the spirit it was meant to summon. The museum lists it under the Dutch word "bromhout" — "buzz-wood," the ordinary Dutch term for a bullroarer — not under any name from Gabon. The country of origin is the only provenance the record carries.
Blaasinstrumenten / Bromhout / Bromhout ... Afrika > Midden-Afrika > Gabon ... voor 1976
Wind instruments / Buzz-wood / Buzz-wood ... Africa > Central Africa > Gabon ... before 1976
Muziekinstrumentenmuseum (Brussels), inv. 1976.038-06, MIMO record OAI_RMAH_95219_NL
- Object
- Bullroarer classified object before 1976
- Function
- Object evidence without group or locality
- Map confidence
- low - Gabon country anchor from MIMO/RMAH country-level object metadata; no original community, collector locality, or use context is stated.
- Source location
- MIMO OAI_RMAH_95219_NL / inventory 1976.038-06, public record checked 2026-06-01.