{"id":"EXH2026-052","label":"Ende, Flores (jata)","people_or_site":"Ende (Flores)","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Central Ende region, Flores","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Indonesia","local_name":"jata","source_term":"jata (bullroarer)","source_language":"English","object_description":"A flat bamboo blade about 12 × 2 cm, pierced at one end for a cord and swung to make a whizzing or buzzing sound.","function_summary":"Swung in the fields to draw rain in the Ende region; among the neighbouring Lio, children were warned off it because its whirring was heard as a moving snake and might call real ones.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"exhaustiveness2026","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/items/b9573a53-72f3-4bd4-9b8f-9be0313379b9?q=%22jata%22+%22bullroarer%22+%22Flores%22","page_or_plate":"Kunst 1942, pp. 158-159 (sections LIII-LIV); Bos 1999, p. 44 and p. 64 n. 99; New Grove (1984) II:323; Grove 2nd ed. (2014) III:69-70 and III:780","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"central Ende, Flores","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Ende, boys swung the little bamboo jata while girls played a different whizzing bow of coconut leaf. The jata went into the fields to call rain. Farther east among the Lio, its sound meant danger: children were warned that the noise resembled a poisonous snake moving—and might bring the real animal near.","pull_quote":"The bull-roarer is met with in Central-Flores, Endé, where it is called jata. It consists of a flat piece of bamboo about 12 cm long and 2 cm wide. A hole is pierced at one end, and a length of cord introduced. When this piece of bamboo is swung round on the cord it makes a whizzing or buzzing sound.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Jaap Kunst, Music in Flores (1942), p. 158","term_gloss":"jata — the Ende name for the bullroarer and also for the distinct whizzing bow; in central Flores jata is also the Brahminy kite.","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["snake","agriculture","weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"Jaap Kunst, Music in Flores (Leiden: Brill, 1942), pp. 158-159, sections LIII-LIV"},{"citation":"Paula R. Bos, Biographies of Florenese Musical Instruments and Their Collectors, Bulletin 347 (KIT Press / Tropenmuseum, 1999), p. 44, p. 64 n. 99"},{"citation":"Tropenmuseum, objects TM 5570-8 and TM 5570-9"},{"citation":"Margaret J. Kartomi, 'Jata,' New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (1984), vol. II, p. 323"},{"citation":"Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed. (2014), vol. III, pp. 69-70, 780"}],"source_citations":"Jaap Kunst, Music in Flores (Leiden: Brill, 1942), pp. 158-159, sections LIII-LIV; Paula R. Bos, Biographies of Florenese Musical Instruments and Their Collectors, Bulletin 347 (KIT Press / Tropenmuseum, 1999), p. 44, p. 64 n. 99; Tropenmuseum, objects TM 5570-8 and TM 5570-9; Margaret J. Kartomi, 'Jata,' New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (1984), vol. II, p. 323; Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed. (2014), vol. III, pp. 69-70, 780","source_display":"Jaap Kunst, Music in Flores (Leiden: Brill, 1942), pp. 158-159, sections LIII-LIV; Paula R. Bos, Biographies of Florenese Musical Instruments and Their Collectors, Bulletin 347 (KIT Press / Tropenmuseum, 1999), p. 44, p. 64 n. 99; Tropenmuseum, objects TM 5570-8 and TM 5570-9; Margaret J. Kartomi, 'Jata,' New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (1984)…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A flat bamboo blade about 12 × 2 cm, pierced at one end for a cord and swung to make a whizzing or buzzing sound.","function_display":"Swung in the fields to draw rain in the Ende region; among the neighbouring Lio, children were warned off it because its whirring was heard as a moving snake and might call real ones.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"ende","display_name":"Ende, Flores (jata)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared/seasia_snorrebot.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared/seasia_snorrebot_thumb.jpg","alt":"Sara mbele — a paired bamboo bull-roarer from Flores.","credit":"Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (Tropenmuseum collection), TM-5570-9","license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Snorrebot_van_bamboe_TMnr_5570-9.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Sara mbele — a paired bamboo bull-roarer from Flores.","also":[{"label":"Wereldmuseum record TM-5570-9 (Sara mbele, Flores)","page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/167381","credit":"Wereldmuseum Amsterdam","license":""}]},"slug":"exh2026-052-ende-flores"}