{"id":"MUS2026-140","label":"Forest Finn seäntikku toy","people_or_site":"Forest Finns (metsäsuomalaiset)","country_current":"Sweden / Norway (Finnskogen belt)","historic_region":"Värmland–Hedmark Finnskogen (Forest Finn settlement belt)","macroregion":"Europe / Northern Europe","local_name":"seäntikku","source_term":"suhistuspuu; seäntikku (tilapäinen nimitys — provisional name)","source_language":"Finnish","object_description":"Pale 12 cm wooden board pierced at one corner and threaded with coarse two-ply cord; made by Karl Persson.","function_summary":"Children’s toy, whirled on its cord until it buzzed.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"FINNA_SU5161_130","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.80198B7A319618EF47FB6DFAB89D5603","page_or_plate":"SU5161:130","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate point in the Östmark–Nyskoga parish area, Värmland Finnskog, where most documented localities of Astrid Reponen's summer-1932 collection lie (SU5161: 130 objects, accessioned 1933), with a secondary group at Grue Finnskog, Norway. This object's own parish is recorded only in the museum's paper main catalogue, the Pääluettelo (Sappinen 2021).","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the Forest Finn settlements along the Swedish–Norwegian border, children spun the seäntikku until it buzzed: a pale wooden board only twelve centimetres long, pierced at one corner and threaded with coarse cord. Karl Persson made this surviving example.","pull_quote":"Leikkikalu, suhistuspuu. Tilapäinen nimitys seäntikku. Pyöritettiin nuorasta niin että surisi.","pull_quote_translation":"A toy, a whirring-wood. Provisional name seäntikku. It was whirled on a cord so that it buzzed.","pull_quote_cite":"Suomen kansallismuseo, catalogue entry SU5161:130 (via Finna)","term_gloss":"seäntikku = local Forest Finn name (tikku, stick)","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), Finno-Ugric collections, SU5161:130, catalogued as a toy (leikkikalu); Forest Finns; maker Karl Persson","url":"https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.80198B7A319618EF47FB6DFAB89D5603","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013022141/https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.80198B7A319618EF47FB6DFAB89D5603"}],"source_citations":"Suomen kansallismuseo (National Museum of Finland), Finno-Ugric collections, SU5161:130, catalogued as a toy (leikkikalu); Forest Finns; maker Karl Persson","source_display":"Suomen kansallismuseo (National Museum of Finland), Finno-Ugric collections, SU5161:130, catalogued as a toy (leikkikalu); Forest Finns; maker Karl Persson","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Pale 12 cm wooden board pierced at one corner and threaded with coarse two-ply cord; made by Karl Persson.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"forest finns","display_name":"Forest Finn seäntikku toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/finna_su5161_130_forestfinn_seantikku.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/museum_harvest/thumbs/finna_su5161_130_forestfinn_seantikku_thumb.jpg","alt":"Plain pale wooden seäntikku with a rectangular blade, one curved shoulder, and a long cord through a hole near that end.","credit":"Finnish Heritage Agency / Suomen kansallismuseo (SU5161:130)","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://museovirasto.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.80198B7A319618EF47FB6DFAB89D5603","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The seäntikku itself — a plain pale board with one curved shoulder."},"slug":"mus2026-140-forest-finns-metsasuomalaiset"}