{"id":"ERM2026-001","label":"Estonian vuristi / vuripuu, Karja parish","people_or_site":"Estonians / Karja parish","country_current":"Estonia","historic_region":"Karja parish, Saaremaa","macroregion":"Europe / Baltic","local_name":"vuristi / vuripuu / suristuspuu","source_term":"vuristi","source_language":"Estonian","object_description":"A thin elongated board tied to the end of a cord and whirled to make a strong hum.","function_summary":"A toy in the Karja museum record; the national dictionary labels vuristi an ancient cult object, and Estonian folk-music scholarship classes the vuripuu among the free aerophones.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"eki_vuristi_erm_mj2698","source_type":"official_dictionary_plus_museum_record","source_url":"https://arhiiv.eki.ee/dict/ekss/index.cgi?Q=vuristi","page_or_plate":"EKI s.v. vuristi; ERM MJ 2698","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Karja Church parish anchor on Saaremaa; the ERM record gives Karja parish, not a named play site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Estonia's national dictionary the vuristi stands among the ancient cult objects. On the island of Saaremaa it was anything but solemn — a 1964 Estonian National Museum drawing from Karja parish records a hobuste vuristi, a 'horse vuristi,' as a child's toy, and Estonian folk-music scholarship counts the vuripuu or suristuspuu among the free aerophones and hears in its whistling whirl an old companion of the country's herders.","pull_quote":"nööri otsa kinnitatud õhuke piklik lauake, mis keerutamisel tekitab tugevat vurinat","pull_quote_translation":"a thin elongated board tied to the end of a cord, which produces a strong hum when whirled","pull_quote_cite":"Eesti Keele Instituut, Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, s.v. vuristi.","term_gloss":"vuristi = Estonian bullroarer (dictionary label: ancient cult object); vuripuu / suristuspuu = related Estonian folk names for the whirled board.","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":"Eesti Keele Instituut, Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, s.v. vuristi; Eesti rahvamuusika (folklore.ee), s.v. vuripuu; Eesti Rahva Muuseum MJ 2698, 'Hobuste vuristi, mänguasi'","url":"https://arhiiv.eki.ee/dict/ekss/index.cgi?Q=vuristi","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013011125/https://arhiiv.eki.ee/dict/ekss/index.cgi?Q=vuristi"}],"source_citations":"Eesti Keele Instituut, Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, s.v. vuristi; Eesti rahvamuusika (folklore.ee), s.v. vuripuu; Eesti Rahva Muuseum MJ 2698, 'Hobuste vuristi, mänguasi'","source_display":"Eesti Keele Instituut, Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat, s.v. vuristi; Eesti rahvamuusika (folklore.ee), s.v. vuripuu; Eesti Rahva Muuseum MJ 2698, 'Hobuste vuristi, mänguasi'","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A thin elongated board tied to the end of a cord and whirled to make a strong hum.","function_display":"A toy in the Karja museum record; the national dictionary labels vuristi an ancient cult object, and Estonian folk-music scholarship classes the vuripuu among the free aerophones.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"estonians","display_name":"Estonian vuristi / vuripuu, Karja parish","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/finna_k7145_6_nivala_suhistuspuu.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/finna_k7145_6_nivala_suhistuspuu_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Sarjankylä suhistuspuu, a long dark wooden slat with a rounded pierced end and trailing cord, photographed in black and white.","credit":"Finnish Heritage Agency / Suomen kansallismuseo (K7145:6)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.2A3816EF66B3F1C88F9A4EFAA2E6648D","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Finnish suhistuspuu herding bullroarer from Nivala.","pool_id":"baltic-nivala"},"slug":"erm2026-001-estonians-karja-parish"}