{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-001","label":"Cittanova Novigrad la fionda bullroarer","people_or_site":"Children of Cittanova / Novigrad","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Cittanova / modern Novigrad / Istria","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"la fionda","source_term":"rombo","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian name","object_description":"Triangular wooden blade about 25 cm long, with one hole centered in its base and one whirling cord.","function_summary":"Children's winter toy, especially played in bad weather; players sometimes released the cord so the blade flew away in a broad arc.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_cittanova_fionda","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0209.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 204-205; Figure 4 p. 205","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Modern Novigrad settlement anchor for source-specific Cittanova; no collection address or maker survives.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Cittanova, children saved la fionda for winter and bad weather. They sent the triangular wooden blade roaring from its cord—and sometimes let go, launching it in a broad arc. The toy's name, 'the sling,' catches both its circular flight and its more hazardous finale.","pull_quote":"un interessante rombo di forma triangolare","pull_quote_translation":"an interesting bullroarer of triangular shape","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:204-205","term_gloss":"la fionda: Cittanova children's name for the triangular bullroarer","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,"sources":[{"citation":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), pp. 204-205, fig. 4","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0209.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240324170002/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0209.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), pp. 204-205, fig. 4","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), pp. 204-205, fig. 4","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Triangular wooden blade about 25 cm long, with one hole centered in its base and one whirling cord.","function_display":"Children's winter toy, especially played in bad weather; players sometimes released the cord so the blade flew away in a broad arc.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"children cittanova","display_name":"Cittanova Novigrad la fionda bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/FABREVASSAS1987-002_battaglia1925_cittanova_fig4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/FABREVASSAS1987-002_battaglia1925_cittanova_fig4_thumb.jpg","credit":"Raffaello Battaglia, Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete (1925), fig. 4","license":"Published 1925 — US public domain; EU term runs to 2029 (Battaglia d. 1958); rehosted low-res","source_page":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0209.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Cittanova's triangular la fionda, with its long cord, in Battaglia's 1925 drawing.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/BATTAGLIA1925-001_cittanova_full_page.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/BATTAGLIA1925-001_cittanova_full_page_thumb.jpg","credit":"Raffaello Battaglia, Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete (1925), p. 205, fig. 4","license":"Public domain in the United States; protected in Italy/EU through 2028","source_page":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0209.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Battaglia's 1925 drawing of la fionda, above his account of children letting go of the cord to send the blade flying."}]},"slug":"battaglia1925-001-children-of-cittanova-novigrad"}