{"id":"GAZDA1980-001","label":"Esztelnek Székely surrogtató bullroarer","people_or_site":"Székely Hungarian children (Esztelnek)","country_current":"Romania","historic_region":"Covasna / Esztelnek (Estelnic)","macroregion":"Europe / Eastern Europe","local_name":"surrogtató / berregtető","source_term":"Surrogtató (Berregtető)","source_language":"Hungarian","object_description":"A 35-40 cm slat pierced at one end, tied to string, and whirled through the air.","function_summary":"Children's toy","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"gazda1980_esztelnek_surrogtato","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://www.adatbank.ro/html/cim_pdf1002.pdf","page_or_plate":"item 392 / Fig. 57; printed p. 237","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Estelnic municipal centre","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Smear a thin film of mud along the slat and it droned louder — a trick Esztelnek boys knew for the surrogtató, a lath of wood 35 to 40 centimetres long, pierced at one end and swung on a string until the rushing air made it whirr. Older boys carved them with nothing but a pocketknife and made them for their smaller brothers and sisters. Gazda Klára recorded the whirrer in this Székely village as a plaything known since time out of mind and still in circulation, turned out among the carts, whistles and rattles the children built for themselves.","pull_quote":"Surrogó hangja erősebb, ha vékony sárréteget kennek el rajta. Fiúk készítik kisebb fiú- és leánytestvéreiknek.","pull_quote_translation":"Its whirring is stronger if a thin layer of mud is smeared on it. Boys make them for their younger brothers and sisters.","pull_quote_cite":"Gazda Klára, Gyermekvilág Esztelneken (1980), item 392, p. 237","term_gloss":"surrogtató / berregtető = Hungarian names for this sound-making toy, from surrog and berreg, both 'to whirr'.","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":"Gazda Klára, Gyermekvilág Esztelneken (1980), item 392, fig. 57, p. 237","url":"https://www.adatbank.ro/html/cim_pdf1002.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240712093036/https://www.adatbank.ro/html/cim_pdf1002.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Gazda Klára, Gyermekvilág Esztelneken (1980), item 392, fig. 57, p. 237","source_display":"Gazda Klára, Gyermekvilág Esztelneken (1980), item 392, fig. 57, p. 237","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A 35-40 cm slat pierced at one end, tied to string, and whirled through the air.","function_display":"Children's toy","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kely hungarian","display_name":"Esztelnek Székely surrogtató bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/GAZDA1980-001_gazda1980-001-gazda1980-fig57.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/GAZDA1980-001_gazda1980-001-gazda1980-fig57_thumb.jpg","alt":"Gazda’s drawing of an Esztelnek surrogtató: a long slat with rounded ends, attached to a long twisted cord with knots and a loop at its free end.","credit":"Haáz Sándor (drawing), in Gazda Klára, Gyermekvilág Esztelneken (1980), fig. 57","license":"Rights reserved; rehosted for non-commercial research. © author / Haáz Sándor / Kriterion; no open image licence stated.","source_page":"https://www.adatbank.ro/html/alcim_pdf6556.pdf#page=6","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Esztelnek surrogtató: Gazda’s figure 57, a 35–40 cm corded slat."},"slug":"gazda1980-001-szekely-hungarian-children-esztelnek"}