{"id":"EASTASIA-001","label":"Cardboard toy-aircraft bullroarer, Tainan","people_or_site":"Tainan, Taiwan","country_current":"Taiwan","historic_region":"Tainan","macroregion":"East Asia / Taiwan","local_name":"","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Cardboard bullroarer in the form of a delta-wing aircraft, 97 x 13 x 170 mm, a metal bottle cap locked between folded cardboard appendages over the nose, suspended from a red nylon thread near one wing tip (MAA 1977.340; the cap vibrates continuously in its seating when the blade is rotated at speed).","function_summary":"A toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"MINIM_UK_41969","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"http://minim.ac.uk/index.php/explore/?instrument=41969","page_or_plate":"MINIM-UK:41969","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Tainan city representative anchor.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A bullroarer cut from cardboard in the shape of a delta-wing aircraft, with a metal bottle cap locked between folded cardboard appendages over the nose and a length of red nylon thread tied near the tip of one wing. Whirled on that thread, it buzzes. It comes from Tainan, on the southwest coast of Taiwan, and is held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge under accession 1977.340, from the instrument collection of the ethnomusicologist Laurence Picken. The wings still carry the Republic of China's blue-sky-white-sun emblem: a mid-century Taiwanese paper toy remade into the oldest instrument there is. When the blade spins fast enough, the bottle cap begins to vibrate in its cardboard seating, adding its rattle to the roar.","pull_quote":"Cardboard bullroarer, whirling aerophone, in form of delta-wing aircraft, with metal bottle cap locked between folded cardboard cut-out appendages over nose of aircraft. Suspended from length of red nylon thread, attached near tip of one wing.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, acc. 1977.340","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":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1977.340 (Tainan, Taiwan; collector and vendor Laurence E. R. Picken)","url":"http://minim.ac.uk/index.php/explore/?instrument=41969"}],"source_citations":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1977.340 (Tainan, Taiwan; collector and vendor Laurence E. R. Picken)","source_display":"Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1977.340 (Tainan, Taiwan; collector and vendor Laurence E. R. Picken)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Cardboard bullroarer in the form of a delta-wing aircraft, 97 x 13 x 170 mm, a metal bottle cap locked between folded cardboard appendages over the nose, suspended from a red nylon thread near one wing tip (MAA 1977.340; the cap vibrates continuously in its seating when the blade is rotated at speed).","function_display":"A toy.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tainan","display_name":"Cardboard toy-aircraft bullroarer, Tainan","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EASTASIA-001_maa_1977_340_tainan.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EASTASIA-001_maa_1977_340_tainan_thumb.jpg","alt":"Tainan cardboard toy-aircraft bullroarer with orange-edged wings, blue sun emblems, a bottle cap at its nose and red thread attached at the left side.","credit":"Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge, 1977.340","license":"© Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/496414/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Tainan bullroarer: a cardboard aircraft on red nylon thread, a bottle cap at the nose buzzing against the roar."},"slug":"eastasia-001-tainan-taiwan"}