{"id":"HAD1898-043","label":"East Derbyshire bummer bullroarer","people_or_site":"East Derbyshire, England","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"East Derbyshire / England","macroregion":"Europe / British Isles","local_name":"bummer / buzzer","source_term":"bummer / buzzer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Haddon's own East Derbyshire specimen: a plano-convex wooden slat, 257 x 47 mm, square at the string end and rounded at the free end; the single cord is tied into a nick cut in each side near one end, and only the opposite half and the free end are serrated.","function_summary":"A boys' whirring toy, named for its sound.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"haddon1898study","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd/page/278/mode/1up","page_or_plate":"pp. 278-280; Fig. 38 no. 5","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"East Derbyshire regional anchor (Chesterfield-Alfreton-Bolsover belt); Haddon localizes the specimen only to 'East Derbyshire'.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Nearly every English bullroarer Alfred Haddon handled had its string through a drilled hole; the one he got from East Derbyshire did not. Its cord is tied into a nick cut in each side near the squared end, and only the far half of the slat, down to its rounded tip, is toothed - a plano-convex board just over ten inches long. Boys there whirled it on that side-lashed cord, and the noise it made earned both of its local names: 'bummer' and 'buzzer.'","pull_quote":"In East Derbyshire it is known as a 'bummer' or 'buzzer.' My Derbyshire specimen is plano-convex, the string end is square and the other rounded.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), pp. 278-280","term_gloss":"bummer / buzzer: East Derbyshire sound-names for the bull-roarer.","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":"Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, Chapter X: The Bull-Roarer; Haddon's own collected Derbyshire specimen, described and figured first-hand","url":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd/page/278/mode/1up"}],"source_citations":"Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, Chapter X: The Bull-Roarer; Haddon's own collected Derbyshire specimen, described and figured first-hand","source_display":"Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, Chapter X: The Bull-Roarer; Haddon's own collected Derbyshire specimen, described and figured first-hand","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Haddon's own East Derbyshire specimen: a plano-convex wooden slat, 257 x 47 mm, square at the string end and rounded at the free end; the single cord is tied into a nick cut in each side near one end, and only the opposite half and the free end are serrated.","function_display":"A boys' whirring toy, named for its sound.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"east derbyshire","display_name":"East Derbyshire bummer bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAD1898-043_maa_1922_391.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAD1898-043_maa_1922_391_thumb.jpg","alt":"East Derbyshire bummer, an oak blade toothed along its far half with a bundled cord tied at the squared end.","credit":"Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge, 1922.391","license":"© Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/448383/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Haddon's East Derbyshire bummer: half-serrated oak blade, its bundled cord tied into the notches.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/HAD1898-043_haddon_fig38_no5_east_derbyshire.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAD1898-043_haddon_fig38_no5_east_derbyshire_thumb.jpg","alt":"Haddon’s drawing of the East Derbyshire blade, with saw-toothed edges and a cord tied around a notch near one end.","credit":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), fig. 38 no. 5","license":"Public domain (published 1898)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd/page/279/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Haddon's published figure of the same blade (The Study of Man, fig. 38 no. 5)."}]},"slug":"had1898-043-east-derbyshire-england"}