{"id":"MINE2026-078","label":"Saint-Hippolyte childhood rhombe","people_or_site":"Saint-Hippolyte / Louis Martin","country_current":"France","historic_region":"Saint-Hippolyte, Charente-Maritime","macroregion":"Europe / Western Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"rhombe","source_language":"French","object_description":"Louis Martin described and demonstrated making a rhombe: a shaped wooden slat tied to a string and whirled to sound. His own rhombe was inventoried by the Musée national des arts et traditions populaires as 70.59.1, and a 32 cm hemp-corded facsimile of it made there in 1976 is preserved as Mucem 1976.30.1.","function_summary":"Louis Martin recalled making rhombes as a child: a game, with no ritual, magic, or protective use attached.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"EHESS_FRANCORALITE_SAINT_HIPPOLYTE_1969","source_type":"oral_history_archive","source_url":"https://les-reveillees.ehess.fr/enquetes/le-rhombe","page_or_plate":"EHESS dossier; Francoralite episode 1 | MNATP 1972-112-85; UPOI_ATP_0001_0009_022","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Saint-Hippolyte commune anchor for the named 1969 informant locality, not a particular childhood play site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In 1969, Louis Martin of Saint-Hippolyte recalled a childhood game: making a rhombe, the wooden slat tied to a string and whirled until it hummed. He had no special name for it, calling it only la petite planche, “the little board.” At eighty-six he could still cut one with his knife, and did. The national folk museum later judged the little board worth copying: a hemp-corded facsimile of Martin's own rhombe, cut to thirty-two centimetres, is preserved in the Mucem.","pull_quote":"il jouait, enfant, à fabriquer des rhombes","pull_quote_translation":"as a child, he played at making rhombes","pull_quote_cite":"Francoralité, Épisode 1: Comptines et jeux d'enfants (Louis Martin, Saint-Hippolyte).","term_gloss":"rhombe: French technical/common term for a whirled sounding slat (bullroarer).","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":"EHESS, Les Réveillées, 'Le rhombe,' Louis Martin recordings, Saint-Hippolyte (1969), ATP 69.33.210, 69.33.214-215","url":"https://les-reveillees.ehess.fr/enquetes/le-rhombe","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260519014505/https://les-reveillees.ehess.fr/enquetes/le-rhombe"},{"citation":"Mucem, object 1976.30.1, POP/Joconde notice 50020084976"},{"citation":"Université de Poitiers, Francoralité, 'Épisode 1: Comptines et jeux d’enfants,' Louis Martin, MNATP 1972-112-85; UPOI_ATP_0001_0009_022"}],"source_citations":"EHESS, Les Réveillées, 'Le rhombe,' Louis Martin recordings, Saint-Hippolyte (1969), ATP 69.33.210, 69.33.214-215; Mucem, object 1976.30.1, POP/Joconde notice 50020084976; Université de Poitiers, Francoralité, 'Épisode 1: Comptines et jeux d’enfants,' Louis Martin, MNATP 1972-112-85; UPOI_ATP_0001_0009_022","source_display":"EHESS, Les Réveillées, 'Le rhombe,' Louis Martin recordings, Saint-Hippolyte (1969), ATP 69.33.210, 69.33.214-215; Mucem, object 1976.30.1, POP/Joconde notice 50020084976; Université de Poitiers, Francoralité, 'Épisode 1: Comptines et jeux d’enfants,' Louis Martin, MNATP 1972-112-85; UPOI_ATP_0001_0009_022","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Louis Martin described and demonstrated making a rhombe: a shaped wooden slat tied to a string and whirled to sound. His own rhombe was inventoried by the Musée national des arts et traditions populaires as 70.59.1, and a 32 cm hemp-corded facsimile of it made there in 1976 is preserved as Mucem 1976.30.1.","function_display":"Louis Martin recalled making rhombes as a child: a game, with no ritual, magic, or protective use attached.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"saint hippolyte","display_name":"Saint-Hippolyte childhood rhombe","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MINE2026-078_mine2026-078-mucem-1976-30-1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MINE2026-078_mine2026-078-mucem-1976-30-1_thumb.jpg","alt":"Rhombe facsimile after Louis Martin’s Saint-Hippolyte blade, Mucem 1976.30.1: a small tan rectangular blade with sawtooth notches along both long edges and a long attached cord.","credit":"Mucem (formerly Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires), 1976.30.1; Virginie Louis / Anne Maigret","license":"Rights reserved (© Virginie Louis / Anne Maigret); utilization subject to authorization; proposed for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50020084976","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Rhombe facsimile after Louis Martin’s Saint-Hippolyte blade, Mucem 1976.30.1."},"slug":"mine2026-078-saint-hippolyte-louis-martin"}