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THBBullroarer Musical Instrument
Lot 21
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By Willow Auction House
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Bidsquare : Louis Pierre Ledoux’s Papua New Guinea Collection
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Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people. Willow Auction House jill@willowauctionhouse.com
Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people. Willow Auction House jill@willowauctionhouse.com
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Bullroarer, simple, plain design.
Bullroarers are used as musical instruments, as the blade howls or roars when it is whirled through the air with the attached string. In Papua New Guinea, bullroarers may be used in funerary or initiation rite, and may be believed to recreate spirit voices. They are kept in the men's ceremonial houses.
Locale: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: Wood, fiber
Dimensions: H 14" x W 3 1/2"
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux CollectionSources:
National Music Museum of the University of South Dakota
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 684. New York City. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504985 - Buyer's Premium
