{"id":"MUS2026-144","label":"Vrbnik grmavica, a handheld storm","people_or_site":"Vrbnik, Krk Island","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Krk Island (Bodulija), Primorje-Gorski Kotar","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"grmavica / grmjavica / germjavica; zujača","source_term":"zujalica / zujača (HS 412.22)","source_language":"Croatian","object_description":"Five corded wooden boards, 18.8–25 cm long and 4.5–5.6 cm wide, whirled rapidly overhead; Ethnographic Museum Zagreb Et 9765a-e.","function_summary":"Whirled overhead to produce a thunder-like sound.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"EMZ_ET_9765","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://glazbala.emz.hr/hr/Predmet/19739","page_or_plate":"EMZ Et 9765a-e; Galin 1988, p. 185 and English p. 136; Drazin-Trbuljak interview 2003, p. 56","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Vrbnik settlement centre, Krk Island; the museum record names Vrbnik explicitly.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Five small wooden boards from Vrbnik carried names built around thunder: grmavica, grmjavica and germjavica. Whirled rapidly above the head, the blades answered with a thunder-like roll, the storm compressed into a blade small enough to hold in one hand. Krešimir Galin heard in those names a memory of ancient rain and fertility magic.","pull_quote":"Svirač velikom brzinom okreće drvene pločice, obično iznad svoje glave.","pull_quote_translation":"The player turns the wooden plaques rapidly, usually above their head.","pull_quote_cite":"Ethnographic Museum Zagreb, Et 9765a-e","term_gloss":"grmavica / grmjavica / germjavica = Vrbnik and Krk names for the whirled noisemaker; the museum relates the name to grmljavina, thunder. zujača = another Krk name for the buzzing/whirring instrument.","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":"Ethnographic Museum Zagreb, Et 9765a-e, grmavica – germjavica, Vrbnik, Krk, 1910s.","url":"https://glazbala.emz.hr/hr/Predmet/19739","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20221204024831/https://glazbala.emz.hr/hr/Predmet/19739"},{"citation":"Krešimir Galin, “Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,” Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988), p. 136.","url":"https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/81853","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220618095157/https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/81853"},{"citation":"Krešimir Galin, “Folklorna glazbala pokladnih veselja” (1988), p. 185.","url":"https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/75961","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220618095021/https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/75961"},{"citation":"Lada Dražin-Trbuljak, interview with Krešimir Galin (2003), p. 56.","url":"https://mdc.hr/UserFiles/File/InformaticaMuseologica/IM34(4-3)1-144.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008234357/https://mdc.hr/UserFiles/File/InformaticaMuseologica/IM34(4-3)1-144.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Ethnographic Museum Zagreb, Et 9765a-e, grmavica – germjavica, Vrbnik, Krk, 1910s.; Krešimir Galin, “Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,” Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988), p. 136.; Krešimir Galin, “Folklorna glazbala pokladnih veselja” (1988), p. 185.; Lada Dražin-Trbuljak, interview with Krešimir Galin (2003), p. 56.","source_display":"Ethnographic Museum Zagreb, Et 9765a-e, grmavica – germjavica, Vrbnik, Krk, 1910s.; Krešimir Galin, “Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,” Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988), p. 136.; Krešimir Galin, “Folklorna glazbala pokladnih veselja” (1988), p. 185.; Lada Dražin-Trbuljak, interview with Krešimir Galin (2003), p. 56.","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Five corded wooden boards, 18.8–25 cm long and 4.5–5.6 cm wide, whirled rapidly overhead; Ethnographic Museum Zagreb Et 9765a-e.","function_display":"Whirled overhead to produce a thunder-like sound.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"vrbnik","display_name":"Vrbnik grmavica, a handheld storm","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-144_emz_et9765.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-144_emz_et9765_thumb.jpg","credit":"Etnografski muzej Zagreb, Et 9765a-e","license":"© Ethnographic Museum Zagreb — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research (no reuse licence stated)","source_page":"https://glazbala.emz.hr/hr/Predmet/19739","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The five Vrbnik grmavica boards themselves, bundled on their string as the museum keeps them."},"slug":"mus2026-144-vrbnik-krk-island"}