{"id":"MUS2026-139","label":"Nivala suhistuspuu herding bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Finnish (Savonian-settled Ostrobothnia), Sarjankylä village, Nivala","country_current":"Finland","historic_region":"Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (North Ostrobothnia) / Nivala","macroregion":"Europe / Northern Europe","local_name":"suhistuspuu","source_term":"suhistuspuu; hyrrä (catalog heading)","source_language":"Finnish","object_description":"Pine splint (päre) 26 cm long, whirled on a 77 cm braided cord. Suomen kansallismuseo K7145:6, ethnological collections, 1928, through Kustaa Vilkuna.","function_summary":"Children spin it for amusement; herders use its sound to frighten cows.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"FINNA_K7145_6","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.2A3816EF66B3F1C88F9A4EFAA2E6648D","page_or_plate":"K7145:6","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Sarjankylä village centre, Nivala (OSM); the record names the village explicitly.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Children whirled the suhistuspuu, the \"whirring-wood\", for fun; herders used its noise to frighten the cows. This one is a pine splint 26 centimetres long on a 77-centimetre braided cord, made before 1928 in Sarjankylä in Nivala and brought to the National Museum that year by Kustaa Vilkuna. Before the first swing the cord needs a slight twist to set the wooden leaf turning, or it will not whirr; how it hums depends on its size, its speed and the angle of the swing.","pull_quote":"Eräänlainen suhistuspuu, jota lapset pyörittelevät huvikseen ja jolla paimenet pelottelevat lehmiä.","pull_quote_translation":"A kind of whirring-wood that children spin for amusement and with which herders frighten the cows.","pull_quote_cite":"Suomen kansallismuseo, catalogue entry K7145:6 (via Finna)","term_gloss":"suhistuspuu = \"whirring-wood\" (suhista, to whirr/swish + puu, wood)","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":"Suomen kansallismuseo (National Museum of Finland), ethnographic collections, K7145:6, catalogued as a toy (leikkikalu) and whirligig (hyrrä)","url":"https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.2A3816EF66B3F1C88F9A4EFAA2E6648D","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013021715/https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.2A3816EF66B3F1C88F9A4EFAA2E6648D"}],"source_citations":"Suomen kansallismuseo (National Museum of Finland), ethnographic collections, K7145:6, catalogued as a toy (leikkikalu) and whirligig (hyrrä)","source_display":"Suomen kansallismuseo (National Museum of Finland), ethnographic collections, K7145:6, catalogued as a toy (leikkikalu) and whirligig (hyrrä)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Pine splint (päre) 26 cm long, whirled on a 77 cm braided cord. Suomen kansallismuseo K7145:6, ethnological collections, 1928, through Kustaa Vilkuna.","function_display":"Children spin it for amusement; herders use its sound to frighten cows.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"finnish","display_name":"Nivala suhistuspuu herding bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/finna_k7145_6_nivala_suhistuspuu.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/finna_k7145_6_nivala_suhistuspuu_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Sarjankylä suhistuspuu, a long dark wooden slat with a rounded pierced end and trailing cord, photographed in black and white.","credit":"Finnish Heritage Agency / Suomen kansallismuseo (K7145:6)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.2A3816EF66B3F1C88F9A4EFAA2E6648D","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Sarjankylä suhistuspuu itself — a dark wooden slat photographed in black and white."},"slug":"mus2026-139-finnish-savonian-settled-ostrobothnia-sarjankyla-village-nivala"}