{"id":"MUS2026-185","label":"Tewkesbury whizzing stick bullroarer","people_or_site":"English folk / Tewkesbury","country_current":"United Kingdom","historic_region":"Gloucestershire / Tewkesbury","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Whizzing stick","source_term":"Bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Carved wooden slat, 145 x 45 mm, with deeply indented sides, thirteen burnt holes across the face, and a single cord knotted through the suspension end.","function_summary":"Boys' toy; its other name, buzzer, is the one Haddon heard in Bedfordshire and Norfolk.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"prm_1902_51_6_tewkesbury","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39630","page_or_plate":"PRM 1902.51.6","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap Tewkesbury town anchor matching the museum provenance; not a documented use site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Thirteen holes burnt clean through its face and both edges carved into deep waves make the Tewkesbury blade the showiest of the English folk whirlers Miss Ogden of Oxford's High Street gave the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1902 — someone inked the town's name straight onto the wood. A single cord still hangs knotted through its end, and the museum keeps its plain folk name too: whizzing stick.","pull_quote":"Wooden 'Bullroarer' with 13 holes burnt into it and deeply indented sides.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.6","term_gloss":"Whizzing stick: the blade's English folk name, with 'buzzer' recorded as an alternative.","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 1902.51.6; donated November 1902 by Miss F. E. Ogden","url":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39630","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39628"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.6; donated November 1902 by Miss F. E. Ogden","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.51.6; donated November 1902 by Miss F. E. Ogden","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Carved wooden slat, 145 x 45 mm, with deeply indented sides, thirteen burnt holes across the face, and a single cord knotted through the suspension end.","function_display":"Boys' toy; its other name, buzzer, is the one Haddon heard in Bedfordshire and Norfolk.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"english folk","display_name":"Tewkesbury whizzing stick bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-185_prm_1902_51_6_tewkesbury.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-185_prm_1902_51_6_tewkesbury_thumb.jpg","alt":"Tewkesbury whizzing stick: dark rectangular wooden board with scalloped sides, two rows of round holes, and its surviving cord.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1902.51.6)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39630","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Tewkesbury “whizzing stick” with its surviving cord, Pitt Rivers Museum."},"slug":"mus2026-185-english-folk-tewkesbury"}