{"id":"MUS2026-198","label":"Ales frúsciu reconstruction (Sardinia)","people_or_site":"Ales, Sardinia","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Ales (Zeppara), Oristano, Sardinia","macroregion":"Europe / Mediterranean","local_name":"frúsciu / burriburri","source_term":"frúsciu","source_language":"","object_description":"A thin wooden slat, one end curved and the other of ogival profile, pierced for a double-knotted cord; held by one cord end and rotated rapidly with extended arm. Museo del giocattolo tradizionale della Sardegna, Ales.","function_summary":"Traditional noisemaker toy, rebuilt in a 1993-96 school workshop from local field research.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"review2026","source_type":"museum_catalog_record","source_url":"https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/DemoEthnoAnthropologicalHeritage/2000248163","page_or_plate":"ICCD 2000248163","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Zeppara, frazione of Ales (OR), the record's locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the 1990s the schoolchildren of Ales, in the hills of western Sardinia, rebuilt their grandparents' noisemaker under a university fieldwork programme: the frúsciu, or burriburri — a thin wooden slat rounded at one end and brought to a gothic point at the other, whirled at arm's length on its knotted cord. The rebuilt instrument went into the town's museum of traditional Sardinian toys, a plaything recovered by the place that once spun it.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","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":"ICCD DemoEthnoAnthropological record 2000248163 (compiled 2022); research coordinated by Nando Cossu (University of Cagliari)","url":"https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/DemoEthnoAnthropologicalHeritage/2000248163","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013023438/https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/DemoEthnoAnthropologicalHeritage/2000248163"}],"source_citations":"ICCD DemoEthnoAnthropological record 2000248163 (compiled 2022); research coordinated by Nando Cossu (University of Cagliari)","source_display":"ICCD DemoEthnoAnthropological record 2000248163 (compiled 2022); research coordinated by Nando Cossu (University of Cagliari)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A thin wooden slat, one end curved and the other of ogival profile, pierced for a double-knotted cord; held by one cord end and rotated rapidly with extended arm. Museo del giocattolo tradizionale della Sardegna, Ales.","function_display":"Traditional noisemaker toy, rebuilt in a 1993-96 school workshop from local field research.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"ales","display_name":"Ales frúsciu reconstruction (Sardinia)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EXH2026-010_mps_0216SM.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EXH2026-010_mps_0216SM_thumb.jpg","alt":"A rectangular wooden Piedmontese rombo with rounded ends, its cord looped at one end and wound around the board.","credit":"Civico Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro, Riva presso Chieri (0216SM, maker Eugenio Reolon), via MIMO","license":"MIMO / Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro — license unstated; rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_MPS_231","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Piedmontese rombo stands in for the Ales frúsciu.","pool_id":"auto-EXH2026-010_mps_0216SM"},"slug":"mus2026-198-ales-sardinia"}