No. SUBSAH-029
Blantyre, Malawi bullroarer
Malawi · Blantyre · South-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, when the town was still a young Church of Scotland mission, founded in 1876 and named for David Livingstone's Scottish birthplace. Around 1899 the roarer crossed to Edinburgh, where National Museums Scotland holds it still. Who swung it, the people it belonged to, and what its sound was for went unwritten.
Particulars
- Object
- A flat piece of wood attached by a hole at one end to the string by which it is twirled.
- Function
- Function not recorded.
Source
National Museums Scotland, Bullroarer, A.1899.94 (Blantyre, Malawi, late 19th century)