{"id":"MUS2026-187","label":"Villefranche-de-Lauragais fish-tailed rhombe","people_or_site":"Villefranche-de-Lauragais","country_current":"France","historic_region":"Haute-Garonne / Lauragais","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"rhombe","source_language":"French","object_description":"Thin fir board, 13 x 9 x 0.4 cm and ten grams, its base cut into a fish tail, with a single long string; Mucem/MNATP 1893.3.4, acquired 1893.","function_summary":"A plaything, classed by the museum among games and toys; whirled, it imitates the rumble of thunder.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"mucem_1893_3_4_villefranche_lauragais","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50020020791","page_or_plate":"Joconde 50020020791; Mucem 1893.3.4","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"OpenStreetMap Villefranche-de-Lauragais commune anchor matching the record's lieu d'exécution/lieu d'utilisation; not a documented performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Ten grams of fir with its base cut into a fish tail — whirled on its single long string, the little rhombe from Villefranche-de-Lauragais 'imitates the rumble of thunder,' its museum notice says. It entered the national collections in 1893 from the Lauragais wheat country south-east of Toulouse, recorded as both made and used in the town — a rare double certainty for a French folk bullroarer.","pull_quote":"Petite planchette de bois (sapin) dont la base est taillée en forme de queue de poisson","pull_quote_translation":"Small wooden board (fir) whose base is cut in the shape of a fish tail","pull_quote_cite":"POP/Joconde notice 50020020791 (Mucem 1893.3.4)","term_gloss":"rhombe: French technical/common term for a whirled sounding slat (bullroarer).","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":"POP/Joconde notice 50020020791; Mucem, Marseille, inv. 1893.3.4","url":"https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50020020791","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013023123/https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50020020791"}],"source_citations":"POP/Joconde notice 50020020791; Mucem, Marseille, inv. 1893.3.4","source_display":"POP/Joconde notice 50020020791; Mucem, Marseille, inv. 1893.3.4","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thin fir board, 13 x 9 x 0.4 cm and ten grams, its base cut into a fish tail, with a single long string; Mucem/MNATP 1893.3.4, acquired 1893.","function_display":"A plaything, classed by the museum among games and toys; whirled, it imitates the rumble of thunder.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"villefranche lauragais","display_name":"Villefranche-de-Lauragais fish-tailed rhombe","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-187_mucem_1893_3_4_rhombe.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-187_mucem_1893_3_4_rhombe_thumb.jpg","alt":"Fish-tailed fir rhombe from Villefranche-de-Lauragais, shown with its long cord.","credit":"Mucem, Marseille (1893.3.4)","license":"Rights not stated — Mucem documentation photograph; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50020020791","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Fish-tailed fir rhombe from Villefranche-de-Lauragais."},"slug":"mus2026-187-villefranche-de-lauragais"}