{"id":"MUS2026-353","label":"Chakma whirring wood","people_or_site":"Chakma","country_current":"Bangladesh","historic_region":"Rangamati District / Chittagong Hill Tracts","macroregion":"South Asia","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"One object catalogued as Schwirrholz from Rangamati District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, attributed to Chakma and entered in 1928; material, dimensions, cord and form are not published.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"markk_2818_230_chakma","source_type":"museum_collection_list","source_url":"https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/06/MARKK-SOAS-ab-1921-2.pdf","page_or_plate":"PDF p. 132","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Rangamati, the district MARKK records; not an object findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Chakma are the largest people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Buddhist rice-farmers and weavers of the hill country now in southeastern Bangladesh, with Rangamati at their heart. In March 1928 a single sounding implement from that district entered the Hamburg ethnological museum under one German word: Schwirrholz, whirring wood. It arrived among sandals, silver earrings, a flour gourd and a model dugout canoe — a compact glimpse of Chakma household life. What the roarer was made of, and what anyone did with it, nobody wrote down.","pull_quote":"1 Schwirrholz","pull_quote_translation":"One bullroarer / whirring wood.","pull_quote_cite":"MARKK East and South Asia collection list (objects from 1921), PDF p. 132, inventory 28.18:230.","term_gloss":"Schwirrholz (German): literally “whirring wood”; the historic catalog designation.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"MARKK, East and South Asia collection list (objects from 1921), 2020 public collection extract, PDF p. 132, inventory 28.18:230","url":"https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/06/MARKK-SOAS-ab-1921-2.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260613213111/https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/06/MARKK-SOAS-ab-1921-2.pdf"}],"source_citations":"MARKK, East and South Asia collection list (objects from 1921), 2020 public collection extract, PDF p. 132, inventory 28.18:230","source_display":"MARKK, East and South Asia collection list (objects from 1921), 2020 public collection extract, PDF p. 132, inventory 28.18:230","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"One object catalogued as Schwirrholz from Rangamati District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, attributed to Chakma and entered in 1928; material, dimensions, cord and form are not published.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"chakma","display_name":"Chakma whirring wood","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/NAGA-007_prm_1928_69_322.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/NAGA-007_prm_1928_69_322_thumb.jpg","alt":"A pointed wooden Sümi Naga herumu blade tied by string to a very long cane handle.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1928.69.322)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39623","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A complete Sümi Naga herumu: a pointed wooden blade tied by string to a long cane handle.","pool_id":"auto-review_2026_07_15--NAGA-007_prm_1928_69_322","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-09-03"},"slug":"mus2026-353-chakma"}