{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-006","label":"Piran rullo bullroarer","people_or_site":"Children of Pirano (Piran)","country_current":"Slovenia","historic_region":"Pirano / Piran, Istria","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"rullo","source_term":"rullo","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names","object_description":"Rectangular tablet rounded at the corners, 15-30 cm, pierced at the upper end for a cord fastened with a simple knot.","function_summary":"Obsolete children's toy: common about eighty years before 1925, completely forgotten as a game by Battaglia's day.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_piran_rullo","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0208.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed p. 204","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Piran old-town centroid.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"By the time Battaglia came asking, no boy in Pirano whirled the rullo any longer; only the old remembered it as common, some eighty years before — a rectangular tablet with rounded corners, pierced at the top for a knotted cord, its name likening its voice to a drum-roll. The salt town's children still spun the two-string gurlo button on its loop, but the true roarer had slipped out of use before anyone thought to write it down.","pull_quote":"Oggi questo gioco e completamente ignorato: era, invece, comune - mi dissero - un'ottantina di anni or sono... Era noto col nome di 'rullo'.","pull_quote_translation":"Today this game is completely unknown: it was, however, common — they told me — about eighty years ago... It was known by the name 'rullo'.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:204","term_gloss":"rullo — 'roll / drum-roll': from rullare, a country word for moving round in a circle, and the roll of the drum, which comes so close to the rumble of thunder.","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. 204","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0208.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240324170001/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0208.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 204","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 204","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rectangular tablet rounded at the corners, 15-30 cm, pierced at the upper end for a cord fastened with a simple knot.","function_display":"Obsolete children's toy: common about eighty years before 1925, completely forgotten as a game by Battaglia's day.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"children pirano","display_name":"Piran rullo bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATTAGLIA1925-007_battaglia1925_fig5ab_parenzo.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATTAGLIA1925-007_battaglia1925_fig5ab_parenzo_thumb.jpg","alt":"Battaglia’s Figure 5 drawing of two Parenzo coa de la cagnea bullroarers: one rectangular, the other pointed with la manetola, its small wooden handgrip, and looping cords.","credit":"Raffaello Battaglia, SMSR 1 (1925), fig. 5 A-B","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/0210.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Battaglia's two neighboring Poreč folk bullroarers.","pool_id":"auto-BATTAGLIA1925-007_battaglia1925_fig5ab_parenzo"},"slug":"battaglia1925-006-children-of-pirano-piran"}