{"id":"JENSEN1936-001","label":"Burji Omisso Furissa bullroarer","people_or_site":"Burji (D'aashi / Daashi)","country_current":"Ethiopia","historic_region":"Burji highlands / southern Ethiopia","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"Furissa; gármi","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German / Burji term","object_description":"Bullroarer identified by instrument class; no material, dimensions, cord, perforation, blade shape, mechanics, or object figure is supplied.","function_summary":"Formerly sounded at Omisso, an annual Gada cult festival; by 1934-1935 it survived only as a children's toy. Informants denied that it served to drive women away.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"jensen_wohlenberg_1936_burji_omisso_furissa","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=1mfu2PiDBwkC&pg=PA145&dq=%22Burdji%22+%22Schwirrholz%22&hl=en","page_or_plate":"p. 145","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Soyama/Burji administrative-area anchor; not claimed as the rotating Omisso festival site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At the annual Omisso festival, whose gathering place rotated among Burji, Alga, and Amarro, the bullroarer once sounded as Furissa. By the 1930s it had crossed into childhood and survived as a toy. Decades later the children set to guard the fields kept watch from wooden platforms and drove off birds and monkeys with slings; their bullroarer, gármi, was still only a plaything.","pull_quote":"In alten Zeiten wurde bei dem Feste ein Schwirrholz verwandt, angeblich aber nicht, um die Frauen zu verscheuchen; heute dient es nur noch als Kinderspielzeug (Furissa).","pull_quote_translation":"In former times a bullroarer was used at the festival, but reportedly not to drive the women away; today it serves only as a children's toy (Furissa).","pull_quote_cite":"Jensen, Wohlenberg and Wohlenberg, Im Lande des Gada (1936; reprinted as Im südlichen Abessinien), p. 145","term_gloss":"Furissa: the Burji name recorded in 1934–1935, when the bullroarer had become a children's toy; gármi: the Burji word for it in Hermann Amborn's 2009 ethnography, where it is still only a plaything.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Jensen, Wohlenberg and Wohlenberg, Im Lande des Gada (1936; reprinted as Im südlichen Abessinien), p. 145","url":"https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=1mfu2PiDBwkC&pg=PA145&dq=%22Burdji%22+%22Schwirrholz%22&hl=en","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013012614/https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=1mfu2PiDBwkC&pg=PA145&dq=%22Burdji%22+%22Schwirrholz%22&hl=en"}],"source_citations":"Jensen, Wohlenberg and Wohlenberg, Im Lande des Gada (1936; reprinted as Im südlichen Abessinien), p. 145","source_display":"Jensen, Wohlenberg and Wohlenberg, Im Lande des Gada (1936; reprinted as Im südlichen Abessinien), p. 145","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer identified by instrument class; no material, dimensions, cord, perforation, blade shape, mechanics, or object figure is supplied.","function_display":"Formerly sounded at Omisso, an annual Gada cult festival; by 1934-1935 it survived only as a children's toy. Informants denied that it served to drive women away.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"burji aashi","display_name":"Burji Omisso Furissa bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/FRAZER1913-016_hollis1909_plXV.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/FRAZER1913-016_hollis1909_plXV_thumb.jpg","alt":"Hollis’s Nandi instrument plate: a long bow above a dark elongated bullroarer with looped cord, beside a broad textured rectangular object.","credit":"A. C. Hollis, The Nandi: Their Language and Folk-lore (1909), plate XV","license":"Public domain (published 1909)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/nanditheirlangu00holl","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Hollis's plate of Nandi instruments: a bow above, the bullroarer","pool_id":"auto-FRAZER1913-016_hollis1909_plXV","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"jensen1936-001-burji-d-aashi-daashi"}