{"id":"FULLEBORN1906-001","label":"Unjika highland toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Wanjika (Unjika highland)","country_current":"Tanzania","historic_region":"Unjika highland / historic Rukwa district","macroregion":"Africa / East Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirr-Instrument","source_language":"German","object_description":"Flat wooden piece on a string, rapidly whirled to make a rushing sound.","function_summary":"Children's noise-game object; no ritual use recorded.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"fulleborn1906_unjika_schwirrinstrument","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/deutschostafrik00stuhgoog","page_or_plate":"p. 237; Tafel 50 no. 41; Frankfurt canvas 5219393; inventory 8408","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Sumbawanga, Rukwa Region anchor; Unjika village/highland has no recovered current gazetteer coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In an Unjika hut, a flat piece of wood became a rushing children's noisemaker when it was spun rapidly on its cord—a small household toy whose roar filled the air.","pull_quote":"Die primitiven “Schwirr-Instrumente”, die ich ein paarmal antraf, sind wohl nur eine Spielerei für Kinder. So fand ich einmal in einer Hütte in Unjika ein flaches Holzstück, welches, an einer Schnur schnell herumgewirbelt, einen sausenden Ton hören liess.","pull_quote_translation":"The primitive 'whirring instruments' I encountered a few times are probably only a children's pastime. Once in a hut in Unjika I found a flat piece of wood which, rapidly whirled on a string, made a rushing sound.","pull_quote_cite":"Fülleborn, Das Deutsche Njassa- und Ruwuma-Gebiet (1906), p. 237","term_gloss":"Schwirr-Instrument: 'whirring instrument', Fülleborn's German name for the toy.","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":"Friedrich Fülleborn, Das Deutsche Njassa- und Ruwuma-Gebiet (1906), p. 237, with Atlas, Tafel 50 no. 41 (inventory 8408)","url":"https://archive.org/details/deutschostafrik00stuhgoog"}],"source_citations":"Friedrich Fülleborn, Das Deutsche Njassa- und Ruwuma-Gebiet (1906), p. 237, with Atlas, Tafel 50 no. 41 (inventory 8408)","source_display":"Friedrich Fülleborn, Das Deutsche Njassa- und Ruwuma-Gebiet (1906), p. 237, with Atlas, Tafel 50 no. 41 (inventory 8408)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Flat wooden piece on a string, rapidly whirled to make a rushing sound.","function_display":"Children's noise-game object; no ritual use recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wanjika","display_name":"Unjika highland toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/bm_E_Af1908-0723-86.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/bm_E_Af1908-0723-86_thumb.jpg","alt":"A Nandi bull-roarer with a broad reddish wooden blade and hide thong passing across and around it; the Nandi, Sebei kin, also call it “lion.”","credit":"© The Trustees of the British Museum (Af1908,0723.86)","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (already rehosted in the atlas)","source_page":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1908-0723-86","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Nandi flat wooden bullroarer on its leather cord, Kenya","pool_id":"auto-museum_harvest--bm_E_Af1908-0723-86"},"slug":"fulleborn1906-001-wanjika-unjika-highland"}