- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- 'Bullroarer'
- Cultural groups
- Cypriot
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1914 Date made: 1900-1914
- Date collected
- By 1914
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1914
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 135 x 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1914.53.11
- Associated publications
- The Museum's collection of Cypriot ethnography is listed in catalogue form in Cypriot Ethnography Collections in British Museums, by Eleni Papademetriou (Nicosia: Cultural Services, Ministry of Education and Culture, 2000), pp. 126-33. This item is listed (with 1914.53.8, 1914.53.9, 1914.53.10, and 1914.53.12) on page 132 as nos. 36-40: '36-40. Bull-roarer. Wooden, rough. Enkomi, early 20th century. Donated by L. H. Dudley Buxton, Nov. 1914.... Four further similar.' [JC 4 7 2001]
Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Bullroarer
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