{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-010","label":"Buje boyhood bullroarer (Vigini reconstruction)","people_or_site":"Boys of the Buie (Buje) countryside, Istrian Carso","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Buie / Buje, Istrian Carso","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names","object_description":"Simple rectangular tablet, 18 x 5 cm, with a single cord tied through a hole.","function_summary":"Simple boys' toy, whirled vertically with the arm stretched forward rather than horizontally overhead; its local name was already forgotten.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_buje_vigini","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0214.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed p. 210; Figure 7","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Buje town centroid, Istrian Carso.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Buje bullroarer survived because a museum man could not forget it. A. Vigini, preparator at Trieste's natural history museum, built Battaglia a copy of the toy of his boyhood in the Istrian Carso: a plain rectangular tablet, eighteen centimetres by five, cord knotted through a hole. He remembered the technique exactly — whirled vertically, arm stretched out before him, not swung overhead in the usual way — but the name, after a lifetime, was gone.","pull_quote":"Il Vigini lo ricorda come un semplice balocco del quale dimenticò il nome.","pull_quote_translation":"Vigini remembers it as a simple toy whose name he forgot.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:210","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. 210 and fig. 7","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0214.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013002038/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0214.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 210 and fig. 7","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 210 and fig. 7","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Simple rectangular tablet, 18 x 5 cm, with a single cord tied through a hole.","function_display":"Simple boys' toy, whirled vertically with the arm stretched forward rather than horizontally overhead; its local name was already forgotten.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"boys buie","display_name":"Buje boyhood bullroarer (Vigini reconstruction)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATTAGLIA1925-010_battaglia1925_fig7_buie.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATTAGLIA1925-010_battaglia1925_fig7_buie_thumb.jpg","credit":"Raffaello Battaglia, SMSR 1 (1925), fig. 7","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/0214.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Battaglia's Figure 7: the Buje bullroarer Vigini rebuilt from boyhood memory, cord knotted through the hole."},"slug":"battaglia1925-010-boys-of-the-buie-buje-countryside-istrian-carso"}