{"id":"GONCZI1914-001","label":"Kissziget (Göcsej) whip-mounted zúgattyú","people_or_site":"Kissziget, Zala county (Goecsej Hungarian folk)","country_current":"Hungary","historic_region":"Zala county (Goecsej region)","macroregion":"Europe / Central Europe","local_name":"búgató / büngik (Gönczi); zúgattyú (museum term)","source_term":"búgató","source_language":"Hungarian","object_description":"Ruler-like hardwood blade, 40.5 × 4.9 × 0.4 cm, with a carved neck holding 23 cm of hemp cord tied to a 49 cm whip-stick handle; NM 44622.","function_summary":"Children’s toy, driven in circles from a whip handle until it hummed and roared.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"gonczi1914_gocsej","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://mtda.hu/books/gonczi_ferenc_gocsej.pdf","page_or_plate":"Goenczi 1914, p. 546 (figs. 18-21); NM 44622","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Kissziget village, Zala county (Lenti district); museum gives the village as creation, use, and collection place","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Children in Göcsej sent the búgató humming in circles: a flat, ruler-like board on hemp cord, sometimes held directly and sometimes driven from a stick like a whip. The Kissziget example preserves the more spectacular rig—a forty-centimetre hardwood blade flying from a half-metre handle.","pull_quote":"A bugatuk vagy büngik... kisebb-nagyobb vonalzó-szerű deszkácskák. Ezeknek egyik végét kilyukasztják... és ennek végét megfogva, a deszkát köralakban csóválják, mely a gyors mozgás következtében zúg-búg. Némelyik búgatónak a madzagját nyélre kötik s ezzel a nyéllel hajtják.","pull_quote_translation":"The bugatuk, or büngik, are smaller or larger ruler-like little boards. One end is pierced... and holding the cord's free end, the board is whirled in a circle, which hums and roars from the rapid motion. On some, the cord is tied to a handle, and it is driven with this handle.","pull_quote_cite":"Gönczi Ferencz, Göcsej (Kaposvár, 1914), p. 546.","term_gloss":"búgató (Göcsej Hungarian; dialect büngik) - a whirled bull-roarer toy: a ruler-like board pierced or notched at one end, swung in a circle on a strong cord, sometimes from a whip handle. Museum standard term: zúgattyú.","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":"Gönczi Ferencz, Göcsej s kapcsolatosan Hetes vidékének és népének összevontabb ismertetése (Kaposvár, 1914), p. 546; Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography), Budapest, inv. NM 44622","url":"https://mtda.hu/books/gonczi_ferenc_gocsej.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250605131612/https://mtda.hu/books/gonczi_ferenc_gocsej.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Gönczi Ferencz, Göcsej s kapcsolatosan Hetes vidékének és népének összevontabb ismertetése (Kaposvár, 1914), p. 546; Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography), Budapest, inv. NM 44622","source_display":"Gönczi Ferencz, Göcsej s kapcsolatosan Hetes vidékének és népének összevontabb ismertetése (Kaposvár, 1914), p. 546; Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography), Budapest, inv. NM 44622","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Ruler-like hardwood blade, 40.5 × 4.9 × 0.4 cm, with a carved neck holding 23 cm of hemp cord tied to a 49 cm whip-stick handle; NM 44622.","function_display":"Children’s toy, driven in circles from a whip handle until it hummed and roared.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kissziget","display_name":"Kissziget (Göcsej) whip-mounted zúgattyú","image":{"full":"assets/objects/GONCZI1914-001_gonczi1914-001-nm-44622.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/GONCZI1914-001_gonczi1914-001-nm-44622_thumb.jpg","alt":"A plain Kissziget zúgattyú blade, drilled near one end and marked with handwriting near the other.","credit":"Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography), Budapest, NM 44622","license":"Rights reserved (© Néprajzi Múzeum); image reproduction authorization required; proposed for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/hu/collection/item/101077918/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Kissziget zúgattyú blade, Museum of Ethnography, Budapest.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/shared/eu_novgorod.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared/eu_novgorod_thumb.jpg","alt":"A wooden whirrer excavated at medieval Novgorod.","credit":"© Новгородский музей-заповедник (НГМ КП 44219/381)","license":"In copyright — Novgorod Museum-Reserve; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://novgorod-iss.kamiscloud.ru/entity/OBJECT/229035","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A wooden whirrer excavated at medieval Novgorod."}]},"slug":"gonczi1914-001-kissziget-zala-county-goecsej-hungarian-folk"}