{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-002","label":"Lake Arsa herders livestock-driving bullroarer","people_or_site":"Shepherds and herders around Lake Arsa; people unrecorded","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Lake Arsa / modern Cepicko polje below Ucka / Istria","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"rombo","source_language":"Italian","object_description":"Wooden bullroarer as much as 50 cm long, with the free end of its cord tied to a stick.","function_summary":"Used to drive livestock and sometimes to startle the animals for amusement.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_lake_arsa_herders","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0215.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed p. 211","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Former Lake Arsa / modern Cepicko polje basin anchor; not an invented farm or performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the plains around former Lake Arsa, herders made wooden bullroarers up to half a metre long, tying the free end of the cord to a stick. They used the roar to drive livestock and, at times, to startle the animals for amusement.","pull_quote":"Nelle pianure intorno al lago d'Arsa ... i pastori e i mandriani costruiscono un rombo di legno lungo anche mezzo metro.","pull_quote_translation":"On the plains around Lake Arsa, shepherds and herders make a wooden bullroarer as much as half a metre long.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:211","term_gloss":"","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), p. 211","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0215.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013001304/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0215.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 211","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 211","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden bullroarer as much as 50 cm long, with the free end of its cord tied to a stick.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"shepherds","display_name":"Lake Arsa herders livestock-driving bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/finna_k7145_6_nivala_suhistuspuu.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/finna_k7145_6_nivala_suhistuspuu_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Sarjankylä suhistuspuu, a long dark wooden slat with a rounded pierced end and trailing cord, photographed in black and white.","credit":"Finnish Heritage Agency / Suomen kansallismuseo (K7145:6)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.2A3816EF66B3F1C88F9A4EFAA2E6648D","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Nivala suhistuspuu used for herding.","pool_id":"baltic-nivala"},"slug":"battaglia1925-002-shepherds-and-herders-around-lake-arsa-people-unrecorded"}