{"id":"EUROPE-008","label":"León zumbador (bramadera)","people_or_site":"León, Castilla y León","country_current":"Spain","historic_region":"Leon / Castilla y Leon","macroregion":"Europe / Iberia","local_name":"zumbador / bramadera","source_term":"ZUMBADOR (Bramadera)","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Folk bullroarer in the Joaquín Díaz collection; wood and leather, total length 89.5 cm with cord; wooden piece 7 x 9 cm.","function_summary":"A sound-toy of the bramadera/zumbador family, named for the roar (bramar) and buzz (zumbar) it makes; elsewhere in Iberia the type is a children's toy and seasonal bird-scarer. For León itself no use was set down.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"FUNJDIAZ_67","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://funjdiaz.net/instrumentos-musicales.php?pag=4","page_or_plate":"Instrument identifier 67","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Leon city/province anchor; source localizes to Leon/Castilla y Leon rather than a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A bullroarer of holm-oak wood and leather from León, in the Fundación Joaquín Díaz collection: a flat blade seven by nine centimetres on a cord that brings the whole to 89.5 centimetres. In Spanish the instrument is named twice over for its sound — bramadera, from bramar, to roar like the wind, and zumbador, from zumbar, to buzz. Who last whirled it in León, and why, the collection did not keep.","pull_quote":"Tiene una hendidura en el reverso y un agujero central.","pull_quote_translation":"It has a slit on the back and a central hole.","pull_quote_cite":"Fundación Joaquín Díaz collection, identifier 67","term_gloss":"Spanish names for the bullroarer, both built from the sound it makes: bramadera from bramar, to roar or bellow like the wind, and zumbador from zumbar, to buzz or hum.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"etymology":"Zumbador is a Spanish sound-name for a buzzing or humming object; bramadera is the Spanish rhombus/bullroarer term used in the Joaquín Díaz object label.","literal_gloss":"hummer/buzzer / bullroarer","semantic_cluster":"sound; motion; instrument_name","etymology_confidence":"medium","sources":[{"citation":"Fundación Joaquín Díaz instrument collection, Identificador 67, ZUMBADOR (Bramadera); comparative Iberian use: Donostia 1952; Barandiarán 1974","url":"https://funjdiaz.net/instrumentos-musicales.php?pag=4","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250928182545/https://funjdiaz.net/instrumentos-musicales.php?pag=4"}],"source_citations":"Fundación Joaquín Díaz instrument collection, Identificador 67, ZUMBADOR (Bramadera); comparative Iberian use: Donostia 1952; Barandiarán 1974","source_display":"Fundación Joaquín Díaz instrument collection, Identificador 67, ZUMBADOR (Bramadera); comparative Iberian use: Donostia 1952; Barandiarán 1974","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Folk bullroarer in the Joaquín Díaz collection; wood and leather, total length 89.5 cm with cord; wooden piece 7 x 9 cm.","function_display":"A sound-toy of the bramadera/zumbador family, named for the roar (bramar) and buzz (zumbar) it makes; elsewhere in Iberia the type is a children's toy and seasonal bird-scarer. For León itself no use was set down.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"","display_name":"León zumbador (bramadera)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EUROPE-008_funjdiaz_67.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EUROPE-008_funjdiaz_67_thumb.jpg","credit":"Fundación Joaquín Díaz, instrument collection, Identificador 67","license":"Fundación Joaquín Díaz — license unstated","source_page":"https://funjdiaz.net/instrumentos-musicales.php?pag=4","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The zumbador itself: a small oval piece of encina (holm oak) wood on a leather cord, from León."},"slug":"europe-008-leon-castilla-y-leon"}