{"id":"NAGA-004","label":"Southern Sangtam Phorr athapuka tiger-attracting toy","people_or_site":"Southern Sangtam / Purr Phorr village","country_current":"India","historic_region":"Naga Hills / present Nagaland","macroregion":"South Asia / Northeast India","local_name":"athapuka","source_term":"Athapuka","source_language":"English","object_description":"Toy bullroarer of light wood with cord attached to stick","function_summary":"Children stopped by old men because sound was thought to attract tigers","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"NAGA_R10539","source_type":"cambridge_naga_database","source_url":"https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/record/r10539.html","page_or_plate":"record R10539; collection listing C622; Roy 1928 Illustration 17 item 5","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Purr/Phorr Sangtam regional anchor; not museum","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When Sangtam children at Phorr village swung this toy, the old men made them stop, certain the whirring sound drew tigers. It is a bull-roarer of light wood, its cord attached to a stick, with rough charcoal designs that include a human figure. J.H. Hutton collected it in the Naga Hills, and it is now in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The Sangtam called it athapuka.","pull_quote":"Athapuka, toy bull-roarer of light wood, the cord attached to a stick. When children use it they are usually stopped by the old men who think that the sound attracts tigers. Rough designs include a human figure, drawn in charcoal.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum object 1923.85.448, Cambridge Naga Database record R10539 (Hutton collection)","term_gloss":"athapuka — Southern Sangtam name for this toy bull-roarer","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":"University of Cambridge, “The Nagas” database, record R10539, collection listing C622; Pitt Rivers Museum object 1923.85.448","url":"https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/record/r10539.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013020012/https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/nagas/record/r10539.html"},{"citation":"Sarat Chandra Roy, Oraon Religion and Customs (1928), illustration 17, item 5"}],"source_citations":"University of Cambridge, “The Nagas” database, record R10539, collection listing C622; Pitt Rivers Museum object 1923.85.448; Sarat Chandra Roy, Oraon Religion and Customs (1928), illustration 17, item 5","source_display":"University of Cambridge, “The Nagas” database, record R10539, collection listing C622; Pitt Rivers Museum object 1923.85.448; Sarat Chandra Roy, Oraon Religion and Customs (1928), illustration 17, item 5","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Toy bullroarer of light wood with cord attached to stick","function_display":"Children stopped by old men because sound was thought to attract tigers","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"southern sangtam","display_name":"Southern Sangtam Phorr athapuka tiger-attracting toy","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared_roy1928_ill17_assam.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared_roy1928_ill17_assam_thumb.jpg","credit":"S. C. Roy, Oraon Religion and Customs (1928), Illustration 17; specimens supplied by J. H. Hutton","license":"Public domain (published 1928)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.107911","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Roy’s 1928 plate of Naga bull-roarers on their sticks; no. 5, a Southern Sangtam one, was said to call up tigers."},"slug":"naga-004-southern-sangtam-purr-phorr-village"}