{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-003","label":"Friulian plain el tuto bullroarer","people_or_site":"Boys of the Friulian plain (Aquileia, Ronchi, Cervignano)","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Friuli / Aquileia, Ronchi, Cervignano","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"el tuto","source_term":"rombo / el tuto (Aquileia)","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names","object_description":"Small rectangular wooden slat tied to one string; seen played in the countryside of Aquileia, Ronchi and Cervignano within living memory of 1925.","function_summary":"Toy of the farm country; already only a memory when Battaglia's informants described it.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_friuli_tuto","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0199.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed p. 195","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Aquileia town anchor — the settlement where the name el tuto is attested; Ronchi and Cervignano lie within 15 km.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On the Friulian plain the bullroarer lived out its last generations as a plaything: a small rectangular slat on a string, seen whirling in the farm country around Aquileia, Ronchi and Cervignano within living memory when Battaglia asked in the 1920s. At Aquileia they called it el tuto — 'the take-all' — a name lifted from the winning face of a put-and-take top. In the town that was once Rome's great Adriatic port, that was what remained of the roarer: a name, a string, and a memory.","pull_quote":"Il rombo fu visto giocare anni addietro nella campagna di Aquileia, di Ronchi e di Cervignano... Ad Aquileia era chiamato el tuto.","pull_quote_translation":"The bullroarer was seen played years ago in the countryside of Aquileia, Ronchi and Cervignano... At Aquileia it was called el tuto.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:195","term_gloss":"el tuto — Aquileia; Battaglia derives it from Italian tutto 'all', via 'prendi tutto' ('take all'), the winning face of a put-and-take top, a name extended to the whirling 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,"sources":[{"citation":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 195 (informants Ugo Pellis and Francesco Blasig)","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0199.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013001423/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0199.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 195 (informants Ugo Pellis and Francesco Blasig)","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 195 (informants Ugo Pellis and Francesco Blasig)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small rectangular wooden slat tied to one string; seen played in the countryside of Aquileia, Ronchi and Cervignano within living memory of 1925.","function_display":"Toy of the farm country; already only a memory when Battaglia's informants described it.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"boys friulian","display_name":"Friulian plain el tuto bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EUROPE-011_battaglia1925_fig1_el_motor.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EUROPE-011_battaglia1925_fig1_el_motor_thumb.jpg","alt":"Battaglia’s Figure 1 drawing of the el motor from Calle delle Tre Croci: a long flat board with a split free end and a cord fixed to a nail at the opposite end.","credit":"Raffaello Battaglia, SMSR 1 (1925), fig. 1","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/0196.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Battaglia’s el motor from the Calle delle Tre Croci.","pool_id":"auto-EUROPE-011_battaglia1925_fig1_el_motor"},"slug":"battaglia1925-003-boys-of-the-friulian-plain-aquileia-ronchi-cervignano"}