{"id":"MUS2026-030","label":"Karbi toy spun for its whirr","people_or_site":"Karbi","country_current":"India","historic_region":"Karbi Anglong, Assam","macroregion":"South Asia / Northeast India","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Karbi bull-roarer / brummer in Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (KHM Oslo UEM46949).","function_summary":"A toy, whirled on its cord for the sound.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"khm_oslo","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213508051","page_or_plate":"KHM Oslo UEM46949","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Spun on its cord at great speed, this Karbi blade whirred for nothing but the sound of it — a toy. It comes from Karbi Anglong, the hill country of central Assam, and was used at Hamren, among a people whose unmarried young men once lived together in a village bachelors' house, the terang, tilling the fields side by side as a sworn work-club before marriage.","pull_quote":"brummer","pull_quote_translation":"hummer","pull_quote_cite":"DigitaltMuseum record 0210213508051 / KHM Oslo UEM46949","term_gloss":"\"Brummer\" is the Norwegian museum cataloguing term for a bullroarer/spun aerophone (cf. the Norwegian \"hurre\" for the same instrument).","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":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM46949 (DigitaltMuseum 0210213508051)","url":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213508051","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013015913/https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213508051"}],"source_citations":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM46949 (DigitaltMuseum 0210213508051)","source_display":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM46949 (DigitaltMuseum 0210213508051)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Karbi bull-roarer / brummer in Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (KHM Oslo UEM46949).","function_display":"A toy, whirled on its cord for the sound.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"karbi","display_name":"Karbi toy spun for its whirr","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-030_khm_uem46949.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-030_khm_uem46949_thumb.jpg","credit":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM46949","license":"No open licence stated ('contact owner') — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213508051/leke","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Karbi blade itself on its twisted cord (UEM46949); the museum catalogues it simply as a toy."},"slug":"mus2026-030-karbi"}