SUBSAH-029 - museum specimen
Blantyre, Malawi
Malawi - Blantyre - East-Central Africa
Function not recorded
Source term: Bullroarer
A wooden bullroarer made in Blantyre, in the southern highlands of Malawi, late in the nineteenth century, now held by National Museums Scotland as object A.1899.94. The entry records the place it was made and the wood it was cut from. Who swung it, the people it belonged to, and what its sound was for went unwritten when it entered the collection around 1899.
- Object
- Late nineteenth-century wooden bullroarer from Blantyre, Malawi; National Museums Scotland object A.1899.94.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - Blantyre city/area representative anchor from the production-place field; not an exact findspot.
- Source location
- NMS object A.1899.94 / entry 339800