{"id":"SASIA-006","label":"Munda Ranchi children's bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Munda / Ranchi District","country_current":"India","historic_region":"Bihar and Orissa / Chota Nagpur","macroregion":"South Asia / East India","local_name":"hur-hur","source_term":"Bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Roy reports Munda boys in Ranchi District using both notched and perforated bull-roarers.","function_summary":"A boys' toy, swung for its whirring noise.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"ROY_1927_MAN_IN_INDIA_MUNDA_TOY","source_type":"review_summary_text","source_url":"https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.56128/2015.56128.Man-In-India-Vol7_djvu.txt","page_or_plate":"Man in India vol. 7 printed p. 63 | Roy, JBORS XIII (1927), pp. 54-61","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Khunti/Ranchi District representative Munda-area anchor; Roy names Ranchi District but no Munda village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Munda of the Ranchi District, the bull-roarer had dwindled to a boys' plaything — and the boys swung both kinds: the perforated sort, with a hole bored for the string, and the notched sort, cut with a neck to tie it on, the same form the Ranchi ethnographer Sarat Chandra Roy had found among the Santal in Monghyr. In his 1927 note \"The Bull-Roarer in India,\" Roy held that it survived among the Munda, Ho, and Santal in only a very few villages, and there merely as a children's toy; it was among the neighboring Oraon, who kept perforated bull-roarers of semur-pod valves in the bachelors' dormitory that women were forbidden to enter, that the old ceremonial and magical use was still alive.","pull_quote":"Munda boys have been found using Bull-roarers of both varieties, notched as well perforated.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"S.C. Roy, \"The Bull-Roarer in India,\" summarized in Man in India vol. 7 (1927), p. 63","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,"etymology":"hur-hur, the Munda name for the toy bull-roarer, imitates the instrument's whirring sound.","literal_gloss":"(onomatopoeic)","semantic_cluster":"sound; onomatopoeia","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Sarat Chandra Roy, 'The Bull-Roarer in India,' Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society 13(1) (1927): 54-61; summarized in Man in India 7 (1927), p. 63","url":"https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.56128/2015.56128.Man-In-India-Vol7_djvu.txt"}],"source_citations":"Sarat Chandra Roy, 'The Bull-Roarer in India,' Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society 13(1) (1927): 54-61; summarized in Man in India 7 (1927), p. 63","source_display":"Sarat Chandra Roy, 'The Bull-Roarer in India,' Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society 13(1) (1927): 54-61; summarized in Man in India 7 (1927), p. 63","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Roy reports Munda boys in Ranchi District using both notched and perforated bull-roarers.","function_display":"A boys' toy, swung for its whirring noise.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"munda","display_name":"Munda Ranchi children's bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/prm/prm_121573.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/prm/thumbs/prm_121573_thumb.jpg","alt":"A notched, saw-toothed wood blade, blackened.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1953.10.127)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-121573","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A notched, saw-toothed wood blade, blackened."},"slug":"sasia-006-munda-ranchi-district"}