{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-009","label":"Vodnjan la sfronda bullroarer","people_or_site":"Boys of Dignano (Vodnjan); Croatian villages of the Rovezia","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Dignano / Vodnjan, Istria","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"la sfronda","source_term":"la sfronda; Croatian-village frndalica","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names","object_description":"Small wooden slat whirled on a cord; played about forty years before 1925.","function_summary":"Boys' toy of winter's end and spring; in the Croatian farming villages of the Rovezia the same slat was frndalica, a name stretched to cover a pinwheel too.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_vodnjan_sfronda","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0212.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 208-209","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Vodnjan town centroid; the Rovezia villages lie in the surrounding countryside.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Dignano the bullroarer belonged to the turn of the year: boys whirled it as winter loosened and into spring, and called it la sfronda, 'the sling' — an onomatopoeic name, Battaglia thought, born of the sfrrr of the blade itself. In the Croatian farming villages of the Rovezia round about, settled long before from Dalmatia, the same slat answered to frndalica — a name the villagers stretched, indifferent to the folklorist's categories, to cover their pinwheels too.","pull_quote":"L'oggetto era chiamato 'la sfronda', cioe 'la fionda', come a Cittanova: termine onomatopeico anche questo, da sfrrr, frrr.","pull_quote_translation":"The object was called 'la sfronda', that is 'the sling', as at Cittanova: an onomatopoeic term too, from sfrrr, frrr.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:208","term_gloss":"la sfronda — 'the sling' (= la fionda), onomatopoeic from sfrrr; Croatian villagers' frndalica covered both the slat and a pinwheel.","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. 208-209","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0212.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013001954/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0212.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), pp. 208-209","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), pp. 208-209","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small wooden slat whirled on a cord; played about forty years before 1925.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"boys dignano","display_name":"Vodnjan la sfronda bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EXH2026-010_mps_0216SM.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EXH2026-010_mps_0216SM_thumb.jpg","alt":"A rectangular wooden Piedmontese rombo with rounded ends, its cord looped at one end and wound around the board.","credit":"Civico Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro, Riva presso Chieri (0216SM, maker Eugenio Reolon), via MIMO","license":"MIMO / Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro — license unstated; rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_MPS_231","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Piedmontese folk rombo with its complete cord.","pool_id":"italy-rombo"},"slug":"battaglia1925-009-boys-of-dignano-vodnjan-croatian-villages-of-the-rovezia"}