{"id":"MUS2026-168","label":"Chichester Whizzing blade bullroarer pair","people_or_site":"English folk / Chichester","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"West Sussex / Chichester","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Whizzing blade","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Two long thin wooden terminal-cord slats, 305 x 39 mm and 304 x 35 mm; the second has three distal holes opposite the cord.","function_summary":"Boys' toy on Haddon's England-wide account of the instrument; Sussex itself is not among the counties he names.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"prm_1920_100_66_67_chichester","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39645","page_or_plate":"PRM 1920.100.66-.67; 1912 Annual Report","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Chichester city-center anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Whizzing blades — the name two wooden bullroarers carried when the Reverend R. H. Codrington brought them in from Chichester in 1911. Each is a long, narrow board corded through a rounded end; one bears three small extra holes at the far tip, their purpose unexplained. The pair has stayed together ever since.","pull_quote":"2 wooden bull-roarers, Chichester, Sussex.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum Annual Report 1912","term_gloss":"Whizzing blade: the English name recorded with this Chichester pair.","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":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1920.100.66, Whizzing blade bullroarer, collected at Chichester in 1911 by R. H. Codrington","url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39645","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39663"},{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1920.100.67, Whizzing blade bullroarer, collected at Chichester in 1911 by R. H. Codrington"},{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum Annual Report 1912"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1920.100.66, Whizzing blade bullroarer, collected at Chichester in 1911 by R. H. Codrington; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1920.100.67, Whizzing blade bullroarer, collected at Chichester in 1911 by R. H. Codrington; Pitt Rivers Museum Annual Report 1912","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1920.100.66, Whizzing blade bullroarer, collected at Chichester in 1911 by R. H. Codrington; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1920.100.67, Whizzing blade bullroarer, collected at Chichester in 1911 by R. H. Codrington; Pitt Rivers Museum Annual Report 1912","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two long thin wooden terminal-cord slats, 305 x 39 mm and 304 x 35 mm; the second has three distal holes opposite the cord.","function_display":"Boys' toy on Haddon's England-wide account of the instrument; Sussex itself is not among the counties he names.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"Chichester Whizzing blade bullroarer pair","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-168_mus2026-168-prm-1920-100-66.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-168_mus2026-168-prm-1920-100-66_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, narrow Chichester whizzing blade with a cord knotted through its rounded end.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1920.100.66","license":"Rights reserved (© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford); rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39645","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Chichester whizzing blade, Pitt Rivers Museum 1920.100.66.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_10_03/MUS2026-168_prm1920_100_67.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_10_03/MUS2026-168_prm1920_100_67_thumb.jpg","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1920.100.67)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39646","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The second Chichester whizzing blade, with three small holes at its square end and cord at the rounded end."}]},"slug":"mus2026-168-english-folk-chichester"}