The Bullroarer Atlas

SUBSAH-029 - museum specimen

Blantyre, Malawi

Malawi - Blantyre - East-Central Africa

Function not recorded

The documented object: bullroarer with wound cord, Blantyre, Malawi, collected before 1899 (National Museums Scotland A.1899.94).
The documented object: bullroarer with wound cord, Blantyre, Malawi, collected before 1899 (National Museums Scotland A.1899.94). © National Museums Scotland (A.1899.94) Image source

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

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