{"id":"CCG2026-001","label":"Carballedo Lugo zoadeira bullroarer","people_or_site":"Carballedo schoolchildren","country_current":"Spain","historic_region":"Galicia / Lugo / Carballedo","macroregion":"Europe / Iberia","local_name":"zoadeira / zoa / rombeta","source_term":"zoadeira (aerofono libre)","source_language":"Galician","object_description":"General Galician form: a 13-15 cm wood or cork slat with a terminal hole and cord; at Carballedo children tied wooden rulers to a cord and whirled them in air.","function_summary":"Children’s school-recess toy at Carballedo.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"consello_cultura_zoadeira_carballedo","source_type":"cultural_instrument_encyclopedia","source_url":"https://www.consellodacultura.org/asg/instrumentos/os-aerofonos/zoadeira-zoa-rombeta/","page_or_plate":"web entry","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Carballedo municipality anchor","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At recess in the Lugo village of Carballedo, children tied wooden rulers to a cord and set them spinning in the schoolyard air until they hummed — the zoadeira, also called zoa or rombeta. It was mostly the boys' doing, though a few girls spun them too. Across Galicia the same whirled slat once had work beyond play: it was sounded to drive animals off the fields, and to spook cattle by aping the drone of the horsefly. By the time it reached the Carballedo schoolyard, the zoadeira had dwindled to pure toy.","pull_quote":"No concello de Carballedo (Lugo) nós mesmos atabamos regras de madeira ao extremo dun cordel facéndoas xirar no aire durante os recreos no patio do colexio.","pull_quote_translation":"In the municipality of Carballedo (Lugo), we ourselves tied wooden rulers to the end of a cord and made them spin in the air during school recesses in the schoolyard.","pull_quote_cite":"Consello da Cultura Galega, Zoadeira, zoa, rombeta","term_gloss":"zoadeira / zoa / rombeta = Galician names for the cord-whirled free aerophone","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_special","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":true,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Consello da Cultura Galega, 'Zoadeira, zoa, rombeta,' instrument encyclopedia entry","url":"https://www.consellodacultura.org/asg/instrumentos/os-aerofonos/zoadeira-zoa-rombeta/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20130304175102/https://www.consellodacultura.org/asg/instrumentos/os-aerofonos/zoadeira-zoa-rombeta/"}],"source_citations":"Consello da Cultura Galega, 'Zoadeira, zoa, rombeta,' instrument encyclopedia entry","source_display":"Consello da Cultura Galega, 'Zoadeira, zoa, rombeta,' instrument encyclopedia entry","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"General Galician form: a 13-15 cm wood or cork slat with a terminal hole and cord; at Carballedo children tied wooden rulers to a cord and whirled them in air.","function_display":"Children’s school-recess toy at Carballedo.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"carballedo schoolchildren","display_name":"Carballedo Lugo zoadeira bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/CCG2026-001_ccg2026-001-galician-zoadeira.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/CCG2026-001_ccg2026-001-galician-zoadeira_thumb.jpg","alt":"A Galician wooden zoadeira, a flat reddish-brown board with a cord tied through a hole near one end.","credit":"Alba Vázquez Carpentier; author collection / Consello da Cultura Galega","license":"No open licence stated; photograph copyright retained, rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://consellodacultura.gal/asg/instrumentos/os-aerofonos/zoadeira-zoa-rombeta/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Galician wooden zoadeira."},"slug":"ccg2026-001-carballedo-schoolchildren"}