Context (CMS Context)
Note on catalogue card: "in Case 25."
Note on catalogue card: "Collected by Cooke Daniels Ethnographical Expedition 1903"
Event Date 1/9/1997
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Bull-roarer. Leaf-shaped, one end carved in zig-zag band.
Event Date 1/9/1997
Author: maa

Context (Other)
Catalogue card reads: [Handwritten in black ink:] 'E.1905.241 ['0' crossed out in blue ball point and replaced with '1'] MELANESIA. NEW GUINEA. Bensbach River Bull-roarer. Donor [underlined]. Major W. Cooke Daniels. R. 1906 ['5' crossed out in black ball point and replaced with '6']. 869.'; [later addition handwritten in black ball point:] 'leaf-shaped, one end carved in zig-zag band.' [inserted in pencil:] 'in Case 25'; [continues:] 'collected by Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition 1903'; [later addition handwritten in black ball point:] 'WESTERN DIV.' [Red circular sticker top right of card.]
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Elongated ovoid bullroarer carved from palmwood; dark brown in colour with bands of zigzags carved in raised relief near end on one side. Above this, small circular perforation.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Context (Field collection)
Collected during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea, led by Major William Cooke Daniels and Dr. Charles Seligman, accompanied by Dr. Walter Mersh Strong and Mr A.H. Dunning, 1903-1904.

The expedition travelled down the Bensbach (Torassi) River between 23 and 29 January 1904, collecting several bullroarers, including one now at the BM (Oc1906,1013.759).
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Other owners)
Object appears as item 55 on Charles Seligman's catalogue of objects donated to the museum on behalf of William Cooke Daniels, see MAA Archive OA2/12/9: 'Bull-roarer, Bensbach R.' Following the expedition, Seligman catalogued and donated the collections on the understanding they were a gift from Cooke Daniels, the expedition's primary funder.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Labels & Markings)
Expedition inscription on side of object reads: [Handwritten in pencil:] 'Bensbach'.

Museum label attached to side of object reads: [Handwritten in black ink:] 'Bull-roarer Bensbach R., B.N.G. Major W. Cooke Daniels. 1905.241'.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue