{"id":"HAD1898-044","label":"Balham boy-made bullroarer","people_or_site":"Balham, London S.W. (boy maker unnamed)","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Balham, Surrey (now London)","macroregion":"Europe / British Isles","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Boy-made wooden bullroarer from Balham: a narrow slat 187 x 30 mm (7 3/8 x 1 1/4 in) with square ends, serrated along each side, whirled on a single cord through a terminal hole; figured by Haddon as Fig. 38 no. 9.","function_summary":"A boy's toy: a wooden slat whirled on a long string for its noise.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"haddon1898study","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd/page/277/mode/1up","page_or_plate":"pp. 277-278; Fig. 38 no. 9","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Balham locality centre, south-west London; Haddon's 'Balham in Surrey (London, S.W.)'.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Its maker was a South London boy. At Balham - then still counted to Surrey - he cut a slat seven and three-eighths inches long, squared both ends, sawed jagged teeth down both sides, and strung it on a cord through a hole at one end. Alfred Haddon kept the toy, measured it, and engraved it as no. 9 in his plate of British bull-roarers, setting a suburban schoolboy's handiwork beside the sacred whirlers of Australia and New Guinea that fill the rest of his chapter.","pull_quote":"I have one specimen made by a boy at Balham in Surrey (London, S.W.); it is 7 3/8 inches in length and 1 1/4 inches in breadth, 187 mm. by 30 mm. The ends are square, and it is serrated along each side.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), pp. 277-278","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":"Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, Chapter X: The Bull-Roarer; Haddon's own specimen, made by a boy at Balham, described and figured first-hand","url":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd/page/277/mode/1up"}],"source_citations":"Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, Chapter X: The Bull-Roarer; Haddon's own specimen, made by a boy at Balham, described and figured first-hand","source_display":"Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, Chapter X: The Bull-Roarer; Haddon's own specimen, made by a boy at Balham, described and figured first-hand","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Boy-made wooden bullroarer from Balham: a narrow slat 187 x 30 mm (7 3/8 x 1 1/4 in) with square ends, serrated along each side, whirled on a single cord through a terminal hole; figured by Haddon as Fig. 38 no. 9.","function_display":"A boy's toy: a wooden slat whirled on a long string for its noise.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"balham","display_name":"Balham boy-made bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAD1898-044_haddon_fig38_no9_balham.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAD1898-044_haddon_fig38_no9_balham_thumb.jpg","alt":"Haddon’s drawing of a flat Balham schoolboy’s blade, with deep zigzag notches cut along both long edges and a cord through a hole near the left end.","credit":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), fig. 38 no. 9","license":"Public domain (published 1898)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd/page/277/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Balham schoolboy’s serrated blade, Haddon fig. 38 no. 9."},"slug":"had1898-044-balham-london-s-w-boy-maker-unnamed"}