{"id":"LECOQ1916-001","label":"Kara Khoja (Turfan) yongpuldurpic","people_or_site":"Turfan Uyghur (Turki), Kara Khoja","country_current":"China","historic_region":"Kara Khoja (Qara Chodscha / Gaochang), Turfan oasis, Xinjiang","macroregion":"Central Asia / Xinjiang","local_name":"yongpuldurpic","source_term":"Schwirrholz (yongpuldurpic)","source_language":"German","object_description":"Small flat wooden blade attached by cotton cord to a cotton-plant twig handle; Berlin I B 4111.","function_summary":"Children’s whirled toy.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"lecoq1916_volkskundliches","source_type":"ethnographic_monograph","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/volkskundlichesturkestan","page_or_plate":"p. 9 (text); Fig. 8 description p. 11; SMB I B 4111","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Kara Khoja / Gaochang ruins settlement, Turfan oasis; Le Coq and the SMB record both give the locality","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Children at Kara Khoja made the yongpuldurpic from the plants around them: a small flat board tied with cotton cord to a twig cut from a cotton stalk. Swung by the twig handle, the little blade whirred above the Turfan oasis.","pull_quote":"Das echte Schwirrholz haben wir nur in der Gegend von Turfan gesehen... Kleines flaches Brettchen, mit Baumwollschnur an einem Ästchen der Baumwollpflanze ... befestigt.","pull_quote_translation":"The genuine bullroarer we have seen only in the area of Turfan... A small flat little board, fastened with a cotton cord to a small twig of the cotton plant.","pull_quote_cite":"Le Coq, Volkskundliches aus Ost-Turkistan (1916), ch. II, Fig. 8 caption and text.","term_gloss":"yongpuldurpic (Turfan Turki/Uyghur): the swung bullroarer, a small flat board on a cotton cord tied to a cotton-plant twig handle.","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":"Albert von Le Coq, Volkskundliches aus Ost-Turkistan (Berlin: Reimer, 1916), ch. II, pp. 9 and 11, fig. 8; Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, I B 4111","url":"https://archive.org/details/volkskundlichesturkestan"}],"source_citations":"Albert von Le Coq, Volkskundliches aus Ost-Turkistan (Berlin: Reimer, 1916), ch. II, pp. 9 and 11, fig. 8; Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, I B 4111","source_display":"Albert von Le Coq, Volkskundliches aus Ost-Turkistan (Berlin: Reimer, 1916), ch. II, pp. 9 and 11, fig. 8; Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, I B 4111","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small flat wooden blade attached by cotton cord to a cotton-plant twig handle; Berlin I B 4111.","function_display":"Children’s whirled toy.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"turfan uyghur","display_name":"Kara Khoja (Turfan) yongpuldurpic","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LECOQ1916-001_smb_ib4111_karakhoja.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LECOQ1916-001_smb_ib4111_karakhoja_thumb.jpg","credit":"Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Aileen Fehse","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://id.smb.museum/object/187399","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A flat Schwirrholz blade bound by its cotton cord to a twig handle.","also":[{"label":"Le Coq's printed Fig. 8: the blade on its cotton cord tied to a cotton-plant twig — the exact Kara Khoja rig","page":"assets/objects/LECOQ1916-001_lecoq1916_fig8_plate.jpg","credit":"A. von Le Coq, Volkskundliches aus Ost-Turkistan (1916), ch. II, p. 11, Fig. 8","license":"Public domain (published 1916)"}]},"slug":"lecoq1916-001-turfan-uyghur-turki-kara-khoja"}