{"id":"NM1966-001","label":"Szurdokpüspöki signed búgattyú","people_or_site":"Szurdokpüspöki (Hungarian village)","country_current":"Hungary","historic_region":"Szurdokpüspöki, Nógrád County","macroregion":"Europe / Central Europe","local_name":"búgattyú","source_term":"búgattyú (museum title)","source_language":"Hungarian","object_description":"A roughly carved flat rectangle of pine, 26 × 4.6 cm, with twine tied through a hole bored at one end; inked on one face 'Vékás Lajos 42 éves Siófok'. Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, NM 66.118.8.","function_summary":"Whirled on its twine; the museum records no further use.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"neprajz_nm_66_118_8","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/hu/collection/item/101097429/","page_or_plate":"NM 66.118.8 (online object 101097429)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Szurdokpüspöki village centre, the museum's place of making, use and collection. The inked Siófok (Lake Balaton) is not used as provenance.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Somebody inked a name along this pine board: 'Vékás Lajos 42 éves Siófok', Lajos Vékás, forty-two years old, of Siófok, the resort town on the south shore of Lake Balaton. The board itself comes from Szurdokpüspöki, a village in the Zagyva valley at the western foot of the Mátra hills, and reached the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest in 1966: a rough-carved slat of pine twenty-six centimetres long, with a length of twine knotted through a hole at one end so it could be whirled. The museum calls it a búgattyú, the droner. Around Balaton the same whirled board was a bungató.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"búgattyú: Hungarian, 'the droner', from búg, to drone or coo; one of a family of onomatopoeic names for the whirled board, beside zúgattyú, búgató and bungató.","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":"Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, NM 66.118.8, Búgattyú (Szurdokpüspöki, 1966)","url":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/hu/collection/item/101097429/"}],"source_citations":"Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, NM 66.118.8, Búgattyú (Szurdokpüspöki, 1966)","source_display":"Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, NM 66.118.8, Búgattyú (Szurdokpüspöki, 1966)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A roughly carved flat rectangle of pine, 26 × 4.6 cm, with twine tied through a hole bored at one end; inked on one face 'Vékás Lajos 42 éves Siófok'. Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, NM 66.118.8.","function_display":"Whirled on its twine; the museum records no further use.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"szurdokp","display_name":"Szurdokpüspöki signed búgattyú","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NM1966-001_neprajz_nm66-118-8.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NM1966-001_neprajz_nm66-118-8_thumb.jpg","alt":"A rough rectangular pine slat with faint handwriting along one edge and a museum number, a thick frayed twine cord trailing from one end, on white cloth.","credit":"Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography), Budapest, NM 66.118.8","license":"© Creative commons license @Museum of Ethnography (as stated on the museum record)","source_page":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/hu/collection/item/101097429/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Szurdokpüspöki búgattyú, NM 66.118.8, with the ink name along its face and its twine.","last_modified":"2026-11-12"},"slug":"nm1966-001-szurdokpuspoki-hungarian-village"}