{"id":"HAD1898-021","label":"Toba-Batak Sumatra toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Toba Batak, Sumatra","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Indonesia","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Plano-convex, narrow, oblong piece of wood about 4¼ inches long; figured by Haddon as Fig. 40 No. 8. Schmeltz p. 102 describes the Leiden object 464/86 (coll. Bernhard Hagen): an 11.5 x 2 cm plano-convex blade with a peg terminal, cord and bamboo handstick — a children's toy.","function_summary":"Plano-convex narrow oblong bullroarer reported as a small children's plaything.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"schmeltz1896_schwirrholz","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Verh-Ver-Naturwiss-Unterh-Hamburg_9_0092-0128.pdf","page_or_plate":"Haddon 1898, p. 299, Fig. 40 no. 8 | Schmeltz 1896, p. 102, fig. 19","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"representative coordinate for named people, place, or region in Haddon","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A plano-convex strip of wood, narrow and oblong, about four and a quarter inches long: among the Toba-Batak of Sumatra this was a plaything for small children. Schmeltz, director of the ethnographical museum at Leiden, counted it as the only true bull-roarer he knew from the whole Malay Archipelago, and Haddon reproduced it in his comparative plate of bull-roarer forms. A second piece at Leiden, a child's toy from Java, resembled a bull-roarer closely enough to note but was set aside as possibly of separate origin. No ritual use is recorded for the Batak object; in the source it is only a children's toy.","pull_quote":"Schmeltz knows of only one true example of the bull-roarer from the Malay Archipelago. It occurs among Toba-Batak of Sumatra and is a plano-convex, narrow, oblong piece of wood about 4¼ inches in length. It is only a plaything for small children.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, p. 299 (citing Schmeltz, \"Das Schwirrholz,\" 1896, p. 103)","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":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, 'Das Schwirrholz: Versuch einer Monographie,' Verhandlungen des Vereins für naturwissenschaftliche Unterhaltung zu Hamburg 9 (1896): 92-128, at p. 102, fig. 19; A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), p. 299, fig. 40 no. 8","url":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Verh-Ver-Naturwiss-Unterh-Hamburg_9_0092-0128.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260915023629/https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Verh-Ver-Naturwiss-Unterh-Hamburg_9_0092-0128.pdf"}],"source_citations":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, 'Das Schwirrholz: Versuch einer Monographie,' Verhandlungen des Vereins für naturwissenschaftliche Unterhaltung zu Hamburg 9 (1896): 92-128, at p. 102, fig. 19; A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), p. 299, fig. 40 no. 8","source_display":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, 'Das Schwirrholz: Versuch einer Monographie,' Verhandlungen des Vereins für naturwissenschaftliche Unterhaltung zu Hamburg 9 (1896): 92-128, at p. 102, fig. 19; A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), p. 299, fig. 40 no. 8","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Plano-convex, narrow, oblong piece of wood about 4¼ inches long; figured by Haddon as Fig. 40 No. 8. Schmeltz p. 102 describes the Leiden object 464/86 (coll. Bernhard Hagen): an 11.5 x 2 cm plano-convex blade with a peg terminal, cord and bamboo handstick — a children's toy.","function_display":"Plano-convex narrow oblong bullroarer reported as a small children's plaything.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"toba batak","display_name":"Toba-Batak Sumatra toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/haddon1898_fig40_comparative.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/haddon1898_fig40_comparative_thumb.jpg","alt":"Haddon’s comparative plate of nineteen numbered bullroarer forms; no. 8 is a Toba-Batak child’s bullroarer from Sumatra, a narrow rectangular blade shown with a cord and stick.","credit":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), fig. 40","license":"Public domain (published 1898)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/b21444584","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Haddon’s fig. 40, no. 8: a Toba-Batak child’s bullroarer from Sumatra.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/schmeltz1896_fig19.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/thumbs/schmeltz1896_fig19_thumb.jpg","credit":"J. D. E. Schmeltz, 'Das Schwirrholz', Verh. Ver. naturwiss. Unterhaltung Hamburg IX (1896), fig. 19","license":"Public domain (published 1896)","source_page":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Verh-Ver-Naturwiss-Unterh-Hamburg_9_0092-0128.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Schmeltz's engraving of this Toba-Batak toy at Leiden: strap-like blade, peg-topped cord, long bamboo handstick (fig. 19)."}]},"slug":"had1898-021-toba-batak-sumatra"}