- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Plain oblong 'Bullroarer'.
- Geographical reference
- England Cambridgeshire St Ives
- Cultural groups
- English
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Miss F. E. Ogden
- Field collector Florence E. Ogden
- PRM source Miss F. E. Ogden
- PRM source Florence E. Ogden
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1902
- Date collected
- By 1902
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1902
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Width 60 mm, Length 217 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1902.51.3
- Research and responses
Miss FE Ogden of High Street [Oxford] was a member of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire from 1893 - 1900 [AP 1/11/2002]
There is one person with the right initials in the 1901 census, Florence E. Ogden, aged 43, born in Oxford and living in St Mary the Virgin parish Oxford described as ‘Housekeeper’ who might be the right person [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 19/02/2007]
Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Bullroarer
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