{"id":"EUEXP-003","label":"Basel (Switzerland) fair bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Basel fair-goers (folk survival, unnamed group)","country_current":"Switzerland","historic_region":"Basel, Switzerland","macroregion":"Europe / Central Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bull-roarer reported as sometimes seen in fairs at Basel; no form or local name given by Haddon.","function_summary":"Secular fair/toy item; no ritual function recorded.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"haddon1898study","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd","page_or_plate":"p. 285","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Basel town coordinate; Haddon names the city as the source place, no findspot detail.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In his 1898 chapter on the bull-roarer, Alfred Cort Haddon noted that the instrument survived in parts of Europe as a children's toy, and among the places he listed was Basel. Unlike the Black Forest, where a German friend had actually seen one, or West Prussia, where Seidel had recorded the whirling toy in print, the Basel entry rested only on rumor: word that the toy turned up at the city's fairs. The rumor was sound. Eighty years later Brigitte Geiser's survey of Swiss folk instruments found the toy, a shingle whirled on a cord, in children's hands throughout Switzerland, called the Schnurre in the German-speaking cantons.","pull_quote":"I have also heard that it is sometimes seen in fairs at Basel in Switzerland.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), Ch. X \"The Bull-Roarer,\" p. 285","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":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), Ch. X 'The Bull-Roarer', p. 285","url":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd"}],"source_citations":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), Ch. X 'The Bull-Roarer', p. 285","source_display":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), Ch. X 'The Bull-Roarer', p. 285","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bull-roarer reported as sometimes seen in fairs at Basel; no form or local name given by Haddon.","function_display":"Secular fair/toy item; no ritual function recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"basel fair","display_name":"Basel (Switzerland) fair bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_217165.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_217165_thumb.jpg","alt":"A wooden board wound with cord at the Pitt Rivers Museum.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 2006.86.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-217165","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A wooden board wound with cord at the Pitt Rivers Museum."},"slug":"euexp-003-basel-fair-goers-folk-survival-unnamed-group"}