{"id":"ANATOLIA-004","label":"Bullroarer (fırıldak), Çakmak Köyü, Edirne","people_or_site":"Çakmak Köyü, Edirne, Turkey","country_current":"Turkey","historic_region":"Edirne / Cakmak Koyu","macroregion":"Near East / Anatolia","local_name":"fırıldak / virildak / kıcırdak","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"Turkish terms in English catalog","object_description":"Smooth-edged rotating-blade bullroarer with tapering blade, MAA 1977.221.","function_summary":"A child's whirligig by type: a fırıldak, the everyday word for a spinning toy, whirled on a cord at arm's length in a circle sized to the child. Its smooth tapering blade has a Hungarian parallel.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"MAA_1977_221","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/505977/","page_or_plate":"MAA 1977.221; Picken 1975, Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey, plate 31a iv and pp.370ff cited by catalog","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Cakmak Koyu / Edirne province anchor; village coordinate not independently locked.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A wooden bullroarer from Çakmak Köyü, a village in Edirne province in the European corner of Turkey, its flat blade tapered and smooth-edged so it whirls at the end of its cord. The musicologist Laurence Picken collected it during the fieldwork behind his Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey (1975), where it appears on plate 31a and where he compares its smooth, thinned blade to a Hungarian cousin — the same child's whirligig, fırıldak in the everyday Turkish, spun on a cord at arm's length in a circle sized to the child. Picken's collection later passed to the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.","pull_quote":"The device is made by the youngest shepherd-boys, and by boys in general, from the age of 7 onwards.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Laurence Picken, Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey (1975), p. 371","term_gloss":"fırıldak is the Turkish word for a whirligig or spinning toy; virildak and kıcırdak are regional names for the same toy.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"etymology":"In Turkish, fırıldak names many things that spin: a child’s pinwheel turned by the wind, a vaned window ventilator, a chimney cowl that swings round with the wind — and, figuratively, a trick, or someone who keeps changing his mind.","literal_gloss":"whirligig / spinning toy","semantic_cluster":"motion; spinning; toy; instrument_name","etymology_confidence":"medium","sources":[{"citation":"Cambridge MAA 1977.221, Bullroarer - rotating blades bullroarer (firildak, virildak, kicirdak), with smooth edges and tapering blade; place Türkiye, Edirne, Çakmak Köyü; vendor Laurence E.R. Picken; Laurence Picken, Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey (1975), pp. 371-372, comparing Sárosi 1967, p. 67","url":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/505977/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013125352/https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/505977/"}],"source_citations":"Cambridge MAA 1977.221, Bullroarer - rotating blades bullroarer (firildak, virildak, kicirdak), with smooth edges and tapering blade; place Türkiye, Edirne, Çakmak Köyü; vendor Laurence E.R. Picken; Laurence Picken, Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey (1975), pp. 371-372, comparing Sárosi 1967, p. 67","source_display":"Cambridge MAA 1977.221, Bullroarer - rotating blades bullroarer (firildak, virildak, kicirdak), with smooth edges and tapering blade; place Türkiye, Edirne, Çakmak Köyü; vendor Laurence E.R. Picken; Laurence Picken, Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey (1975), pp. 371-372, comparing Sárosi 1967, p. 67","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Smooth-edged rotating-blade bullroarer with tapering blade, MAA 1977.221.","function_display":"A child's whirligig by type: a fırıldak, the everyday word for a spinning toy, whirled on a cord at arm's length in a circle sized to the child. Its smooth tapering blade has a Hungarian parallel.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"akmak","display_name":"Bullroarer (fırıldak), Çakmak Köyü, Edirne","image":{"full":"assets/objects/ATL1966-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/ATL1966-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"Two corded, saw-edged European wooden slats pricked with dotted figures.","credit":"Léna, via Wikimedia Commons","license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Furrun_farra.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Two corded, saw-edged European wooden slats pricked with dotted figures."},"slug":"anatolia-004-cakmak-koyu-edirne-turkey"}