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Bullroarer
Oro, bullroarer, free aerophone. A light piece of wood, worked with metal tools into a narrow rectangular shape with a triangular point at one end. Near the opposite end is a hole through which a black cotton string is threaded.
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1925-1955 - Maker:
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Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Nigeria - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:412.22 Whirling aerophones
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- Materials:vegetable fibre, wood
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:412.22 Whirling aerophones
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens