{"id":"SASIA-003","label":"Calcutta toy bullroarer","people_or_site":"Kolkata urban toy provenance","country_current":"India","historic_region":"Calcutta / Kolkata","macroregion":"South Asia / East India","local_name":"","source_term":"toy bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A toy bullroarer with a 230 mm bamboo blade, its string, and a separate 414 mm handstick (PRM 1924.42.7).","function_summary":"A toy, whirled in Calcutta.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"PRM_1924_CALCUTTA_TOY_BULLROARER","source_type":"annual_report","source_url":"https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/museum-annual-reports/225-1924-annual-report.html","page_or_plate":"1924 annual report; PRM 1924.42.7","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Calcutta/Kolkata source-place anchor from the museum report provenance; representative urban toy anchor, not the Oxford museum location or a named cultural-territory point.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A city plaything: a bamboo blade the length of a hand, hung by a string from a separate stick about forty centimetres long, whirled as a toy in Calcutta. It reached the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1924 from F.A. Richards of the Indian Civil Service, together with a second Indian whirling noisemaker — a child's buzzer of doubled palm-leaf from the Madras Presidency that hummed when swung on its cord.","pull_quote":"toy bull-roarer, Calcutta. Presented by F.A. Richards, M.A., I.C.S.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Pitt Rivers Museum Annual Report 1924, Accessions by Donation","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":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1924 annual report lists toy bull-roarer from Calcutta","url":"https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/museum-annual-reports/225-1924-annual-report.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251111104322/https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/museum-annual-reports/225-1924-annual-report.html"}],"source_citations":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1924 annual report lists toy bull-roarer from Calcutta","source_display":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1924 annual report lists toy bull-roarer from Calcutta","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A toy bullroarer with a 230 mm bamboo blade, its string, and a separate 414 mm handstick (PRM 1924.42.7).","function_display":"A toy, whirled in Calcutta.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kolkata urban","display_name":"Calcutta toy bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SASIA-003_sasia-003-prm1924-42-7-calcutta.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SASIA-003_sasia-003-prm1924-42-7-calcutta_thumb.jpg","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1924.42.7","license":"Rights reserved (© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford); non-commercial educational/research reuse","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39626","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Bamboo toy bullroarer with cord and handstick, Kolkata."},"slug":"sasia-003-kolkata-urban-toy-provenance"}