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Object Number
51-32-70/3505
Display Title
Bull roarer/churinga
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Bull roarer, carved wood, flat, tapered to point both ends, perforated one end, incised circular design
Classification
- Carving
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Australia
/
Northern Territory
Additional Geographic Terms
Central
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 3.5 x 23.5 x 1 cm (1 3/8 x 9 1/4 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
51-32-70/3505; Central Australia / bullroarer
Provenance
Expedition
Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition
(6/26/1951)
Collector
N.B. Tindale
(1951)
Collector
Dr. Joseph B. Birdsell
(1951)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 51-32-70/3506 | Bull roarer/churinga |
Art 3-D
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Northern Territory
| |
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Media Restricted
| 51-32-70/3504 | Bull roarer/churinga |
Special
|
Northern Territory
| |
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Media Restricted
| 967-71-70/4669 | Bull Roarer/Churinga |
Ornament
Shaft, modified |
Northern Territory
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 967-71-70/4670 | Bull Roarer/Churinga |
Unclassified
Shaft, modified |
Australia
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 967-71-70/4668 | Bull Roarer/Churinga |
Tools
Shaft, modified |
Northern Territory
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 967-71-70/4667 | Bull Roarer/Churinga |
Tools
|
Northern Territory
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 28-47-70/D3262 | Bull roarer/churinga |
Shaft, modified
Unclassified |
Northern Territory
| |
| 56-28-20/19814 | Wood "Bull Roarers" for ceremonial use (2) |
Raw Material
Tools |
Tabasco
Sonora | |
|
Media Restricted
| 34-24-10/3735 | Denticulated bull roarer used as a toy |
Toy
|
Parker
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 13-24-60/84999 | Bull roarer ? |
Shaft, modified
Whistle |
Assam
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 967-71-70/4662 | Wooden bull-roarer with incised geometric designs and string attached 8" long |
Unclassified
Shaft, modified |
Australia
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 33-97-10/1791 | Small "whizzer" or bull roarer used in Hopi ceremonial |
Worked Wood
Shaft, modified |
Ruined house
|