No. SUBSAH-011
Gabon bromhout bullroarer
Gabon · Central Africa
Function not recorded
Source term: Bromhout
A wooden blade in Brussels' Musical Instruments Museum, just over half a metre long — 52 centimetres by 8.4, and 2.6 thick — from Gabon, dated no closer than "before 1976." It travels under a Dutch name: "bromhout," buzz-wood, the ordinary Dutch term for a bullroarer. No name from Gabon came with it, and the country is the whole of its provenance.
Particulars
- Object
- A long, dark, weathered wooden blade with a raised relief rib carved down its face.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels, inv. 1976.038-06, 'Bromhout' (Gabon, before 1976)