{"id":"MUS2026-170","label":"Bedford whizzing-stick bullroarer","people_or_site":"English folk / Bedford","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Bedfordshire / Bedford","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Whizzing stick / buzzer","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Serrated carved wooden slat, 227 x 32 mm, with one terminal suspension hole.","function_summary":"Boys' toy — 'In Bedfordshire its name is \"buzzer\",' Haddon records, listing the county among those where English boys played with the instrument.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"prm_1902_51_1_bedford","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39628","page_or_plate":"PRM 1902.51.1","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap Bedford town anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Blunt teeth run down both edges of Bedford's 22.7-centimetre Whizzing stick, giving the small wooden blade the look of a pocket saw. Buzzer was its other English name.","pull_quote":"Wooden 'Bullroarer' with serrated edge.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.1","term_gloss":"Whizzing stick / buzzer: the two English names recorded with the blade.","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 1902.51.1","url":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39628","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39628"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.1","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.1","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Serrated carved wooden slat, 227 x 32 mm, with one terminal suspension hole.","function_display":"Boys' toy — 'In Bedfordshire its name is \"buzzer\",' Haddon records, listing the county among those where English boys played with the instrument.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"Bedford whizzing-stick bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/MUS2026-170_prm_1902_51_1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/MUS2026-170_prm_1902_51_1_thumb.jpg","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1902.51.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39628","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Bedford Whizzing stick, a serrated wooden blade pierced at one end, Pitt Rivers Museum."},"slug":"mus2026-170-english-folk-bedford"}