bullroarer
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.663-664
- Description
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Elongated ovoid bullroarer (Oc1906,1013.664) carved from palmwood with rough finish; dark brown with decorated panel at one end. Above this, circular perforation and rectangular finial with triangular cut-out (apex facing inwards). Panel consists of incised lime in-filled anthropomorphic figure with oversized head and large concentric circular eyes. Figure surrounded by concentric triangles. Above this, two rows of opposing concentric squares with zigzag borders. Also, elongated ovoid bullroarer (Oc1906,1013.663) carved from palmwood; stained red-brown with decorated panel at one end. Above this, circular perforation and rectangular finial with triangular cut-out (apex facing inwards). Panel consists of two incised lime in-filled bands of interlocking s-shapes either side of two rows of zigzags. Below this, large interlocking s-shapes join at base forming an arrow shape.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 40 centimetres (Oc1906,1013.663)
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Length: 40.50 centimetres (Oc1906,1013.664)
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Thickness: 0.80 centimetres (Oc1906,1013.663)
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Thickness: 0.90 centimetres (Oc1906,1013.664)
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Width: 5.10 centimetres (Oc1906,1013.663)
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Width: 4.90 centimetres (Oc1906,1013.664)
- Curator's comments
- Oc1906,1013.664: inscription handwritten in black ink on one side of object reads: 'Maipua' and to the right of this 'MAIPUA'. Oc1906,1013.663: inscription handwritten in black ink on one side of object reads: 'MAIPUA'; on opposing side also in black ink: 'Maipua Dolo [?or Dobo]'.
Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2003 15 Dec-2009 Jun, BM, 'Living and Dying'
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.663-664