{"id":"MUS2026-172","label":"St Ives bullroarer and Buzzer pair","people_or_site":"English folk / St Ives","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Cambridgeshire / St Ives","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Bull roarer / Buzzer","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Two carved wooden terminal-hole slats: one plain oblong blade, 217 x 60 mm, and one serrated blade, 197 x 36 mm, retaining its cord.","function_summary":"Boys' toy, known by the same Bull roarer and Buzzer names Haddon gathered elsewhere in England.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"prm_1902_51_3_4_st_ives","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39633","page_or_plate":"PRM 1902.51.3-.4","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap St Ives town anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"St Ives preserved two styles side by side: a broad plain board and a narrow saw-edged blade with its cord still coiled beside it. Their blunt English names were Bull roarer and Buzzer.","pull_quote":"Long wooden 'Bullroarer' with small serrations.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.4","term_gloss":"Bull roarer / Buzzer: the two museum-recorded names for the St Ives 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 1902.51.3-.4","url":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39633","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39628"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.3-.4","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.3-.4","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two carved wooden terminal-hole slats: one plain oblong blade, 217 x 60 mm, and one serrated blade, 197 x 36 mm, retaining its cord.","function_display":"Boys' toy, known by the same Bull roarer and Buzzer names Haddon gathered elsewhere in England.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"St Ives bullroarer and Buzzer pair","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/MUS2026-172_prm_1902_51_4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/MUS2026-172_prm_1902_51_4_thumb.jpg","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1902.51.4)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39633","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The corded, saw-edged member of the St Ives pair, Pitt Rivers Museum.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/MUS2026-172_prm_1902_51_3.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/MUS2026-172_prm_1902_51_3_thumb.jpg","alt":"Broad, plain wooden St Ives blade with clipped corners and a square hole near one end.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1902.51.3)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39632","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The broad plain member of the St Ives pair, Pitt Rivers Museum."}]},"slug":"mus2026-172-english-folk-st-ives"}