{"id":"FABREVASSAS1987-002","label":"Ceneselli rombo with a pig bone","people_or_site":"Ceneselli, Alto Polesine","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Ceneselli, Alto Polesine, Rovigo (Veneto)","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"rombo-tavoletta","source_term":"rombo-tavoletta (rhombe confectionne avec une planchette)","source_language":"fr","object_description":"A planchette-type slat roarer with a pig bone tied to the far end of its cord - a composite recorded nowhere else.","function_summary":"A children's plaything of the Veneto plain: Corrain observed the Ceneselli rombo-tavoletta for his study of the games country children made for themselves, and thought its pig-bone cord-weight worth mapping across Italy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"fabrevassas1987_du_cochon","source_type":"ethnographic_journal_article","source_url":"https://www.persee.fr/doc/rural_0014-2182_1987_num_105_1_3189","page_or_plate":"printed p. 203","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Ceneselli town anchor, Alto Polesine; OpenStreetMap node 64778562, corroborated at settlement scale by GeoNames 3179173; not an exact observation point.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Ceneselli on the Po plain the slat roarer carried one addition: a pig bone knotted to the free end of the cord. In this region the pig was killed at the season of the dead, and what remains of it — bone and horn, set spinning — 'makes the dead heard.'","pull_quote":"Il serait interessant de pouvoir mesurer l'aire de diffusion de la fixation d'un os de cochon a l'extremite de la ficelle du plus typique rombo-tavoletta (rhombe confectionne avec une planchette) qu'il me fut donne d'observer a Ceneselli (Alto-Polesine).","pull_quote_translation":"It would be interesting to be able to measure the area of diffusion of the fixing of a pig bone to the end of the cord of the most typical rombo-tavoletta (a rhombe made with a small board) that I was ever given to observe, at Ceneselli (Alto Polesine).","pull_quote_cite":"Cleto Corrain, in Tucci 1960: 444, quoted by Fabre-Vassas, Etudes rurales 105-106 (1987), printed p. 203","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":"Claudine Fabre-Vassas, 'Du cochon pour les morts,' Études rurales 105-106 (1987), pp. 181-212, at p. 203","url":"https://www.persee.fr/doc/rural_0014-2182_1987_num_105_1_3189","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250429215101/https://www.persee.fr/doc/rural_0014-2182_1987_num_105_1_3189"},{"citation":"Cleto Corrain, testimony in Tucci (1960), p. 444, via Fabre-Vassas 1987, p. 203"},{"citation":"Cleto Corrain, 'L’interesse etnografico di alcuni giochi dei fanciulli. Dati desunti da osservazioni nella pianura veneta,' Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia (1957), pp. 154-156, via Giovanni Tucci 1969, p. 376 n. 16"},{"citation":"Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia 21 (1969), p. 376 n. 16","url":"https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917113515/https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Claudine Fabre-Vassas, 'Du cochon pour les morts,' Études rurales 105-106 (1987), pp. 181-212, at p. 203; Cleto Corrain, testimony in Tucci (1960), p. 444, via Fabre-Vassas 1987, p. 203; Cleto Corrain, 'L’interesse etnografico di alcuni giochi dei fanciulli. Dati desunti da osservazioni nella pianura veneta,' Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia (1957), pp. 154-156, via Giovanni Tucci 1969, p. 376 n. 16; Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia 21 (1969), p. 376 n. 16","source_display":"Claudine Fabre-Vassas, 'Du cochon pour les morts,' Études rurales 105-106 (1987), pp. 181-212, at p. 203; Cleto Corrain, testimony in Tucci (1960), p. 444, via Fabre-Vassas 1987, p. 203; Cleto Corrain, 'L’interesse etnografico di alcuni giochi dei fanciulli. Dati desunti da osservazioni nella pianura veneta,' Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A planchette-type slat roarer with a pig bone tied to the far end of its cord - a composite recorded nowhere else.","function_display":"A children's plaything of the Veneto plain: Corrain observed the Ceneselli rombo-tavoletta for his study of the games country children made for themselves, and thought its pig-bone cord-weight worth mapping across Italy.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"ceneselli","display_name":"Ceneselli rombo with a pig bone","image":{"full":"assets/objects/FABREVASSAS1987-002_battaglia1925_cittanova_fig4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/FABREVASSAS1987-002_battaglia1925_cittanova_fig4_thumb.jpg","alt":"Battaglia’s 1925 drawing of Cittanova’s triangular wooden la fionda, with a cord looped through a hole near its broad end.","credit":"Raffaello Battaglia, Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete (1925), fig. 4","license":"Published 1925 — US public domain; EU term runs to 2029 (Battaglia d. 1958); rehosted low-res","source_page":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0209.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Battaglia’s 1925 Cittanova la fionda, a children’s wooden bullroarer."},"slug":"fabrevassas1987-002-ceneselli-alto-polesine"}