{"id":"MUS2026-077","label":"Tojo lelempali leaf bullroarer","people_or_site":"Tojo","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Tojo coast, Central Sulawesi","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Indonesia","local_name":"lelempali","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German / Dutch catalogue","object_description":"Fresh folded Ficus livingstonia leaf, 12.5 × 2 cm, with a curved leaf-rib attachment and plant-fibre cord.","function_summary":"Whirring leaf instrument; social use not recorded. It sounded only while the leaf remained fresh.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"juynboll1927_tojo_lelempali","source_type":"museum_catalogue","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/celebes03juyn","page_or_plate":"Juynboll 1927:55, acc. 1300/39","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"approximate culture/locality centroid","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Tojo lelempali was built to live fast: a fresh fig leaf folded into a narrow blade, stiffened with a curved piece of leaf-rib and sent whirring on a plant fibre. At only 12.5 centimetres long, it worked only while the leaf stayed green; once dry, Kruyt reported, it fell silent.","pull_quote":"Schwirrholz (lelempali), bestehend aus einem Stückchen Blatt der Ficus Livingstonia, rechteckig gefaltet","pull_quote_translation":"Bullroarer (lelempali), made from a small piece of Ficus livingstonia leaf, folded into a rectangle.","pull_quote_cite":"Juynboll, Catalogus ... Celebes (1927), p. 55, acc. 1300/39","term_gloss":"lelempali = Tojo name in Juynboll’s catalogue.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"W. R. Juynboll, Catalogus van 's Rijks Ethnographisch Museum: Celebes (1927), p. 55, accession 1300/39, citing Kruyt","url":"https://archive.org/details/celebes03juyn"}],"source_citations":"W. R. Juynboll, Catalogus van 's Rijks Ethnographisch Museum: Celebes (1927), p. 55, accession 1300/39, citing Kruyt","source_display":"W. R. Juynboll, Catalogus van 's Rijks Ethnographisch Museum: Celebes (1927), p. 55, accession 1300/39, citing Kruyt","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Fresh folded Ficus livingstonia leaf, 12.5 × 2 cm, with a curved leaf-rib attachment and plant-fibre cord.","function_display":"Whirring leaf instrument; social use not recorded. It sounded only while the leaf remained fresh.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tojo","display_name":"Tojo lelempali leaf bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared/seasia_snorrebot.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared/seasia_snorrebot_thumb.jpg","alt":"Sara mbele — a paired bamboo bull-roarer from Flores.","credit":"Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (Tropenmuseum collection), TM-5570-9","license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Snorrebot_van_bamboe_TMnr_5570-9.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Sara mbele — a paired bamboo bull-roarer from Flores.","pool_id":"auto-shared--seasia_snorrebot"},"slug":"mus2026-077-tojo"}