{"id":"SEA-004","label":"Tinguian Patoc pabilbil bullroarer","people_or_site":"Tinguian / Patoc","country_current":"Philippines","historic_region":"Abra / Patoc / Luzon","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Philippines","local_name":"pabilbil","source_term":"bull roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Thin bamboo blade tied by a red cord to a long bamboo handle; Field Museum 109123. A Philippine rig of the same build is in the Penn Museum, Philadelphia: object 22287, a flat bamboo blade only 15.7 centimetres long, pointed at one end and notched at the other for its string, with a separate tapered bamboo handle.","function_summary":"A boys’ plaything swung overhead to make a pleasing roar and drive stray horses.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"FIELD_MUSEUM_TINGUIAN_PATOC_PABILBIL_109123","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-14-1-1976/manuel-philippine-musical-instruments.pdf","page_or_plate":"Manuel 1976, p. 10 (Tinguian inventory, entry for Sp. No. 109123); glossary p. 60 ('PABILBIL, Ting., bull roarer'); collector's own monograph at Cole 1922, p. 274","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Patoc Bucay Abra coordinate from Mindat/GeoNames; Field Museum gives locale Patoc and province Abra, not an object findspot GPS","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Patoc, boys swung the pabilbil overhead for the pleasure of its roar—and to send stray horses running. Fay-Cooper Cole collected this complete bamboo rig in 1907–08: a thin blade suspended by red cord from a long handle.","pull_quote":"pabilbil, bull roarer, used to drive or frighten horses; bamboo pole has thin strip of bamboo attached by red cord; usually a boy's plaything","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"E. Arsenio Manuel, 'Toward an Inventory of Philippine Musical Instruments,' Asian Studies 14, no. 1 (1976): 10 (Field Museum of Natural History Tinguian inventory, Sp. No. 109123).","term_gloss":"pabilbil (Tinguian/Itneg) — the whirled bullroarer, not to be confused with bilbil/bungkaka, the struck bamboo buzzer of Cordillera women.","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":"E. Arsenio Manuel, 'Toward an Inventory of Philippine Musical Instruments,' Asian Studies 14, no. 1 (1976): 10 (Field Museum of Natural History, Sp. No. 109123, collected by F. C. Cole, 1907-1908); Fay-Cooper Cole, The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe (Field Museum Anthropological Series XIV, no. 2, 1922), p. 274","url":"https://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-14-1-1976/manuel-philippine-musical-instruments.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240723115543/https://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-14-1-1976/manuel-philippine-musical-instruments.pdf"}],"source_citations":"E. Arsenio Manuel, 'Toward an Inventory of Philippine Musical Instruments,' Asian Studies 14, no. 1 (1976): 10 (Field Museum of Natural History, Sp. No. 109123, collected by F. C. Cole, 1907-1908); Fay-Cooper Cole, The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe (Field Museum Anthropological Series XIV, no. 2, 1922), p. 274","source_display":"E. Arsenio Manuel, 'Toward an Inventory of Philippine Musical Instruments,' Asian Studies 14, no. 1 (1976): 10 (Field Museum of Natural History, Sp. No. 109123, collected by F. C. Cole, 1907-1908); Fay-Cooper Cole, The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe (Field Museum Anthropological Series XIV, no. 2, 1922), p. 274","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Thin bamboo blade tied by a red cord to a long bamboo handle; Field Museum 109123. A Philippine rig of the same build is in the Penn Museum, Philadelphia: object 22287, a flat bamboo blade only 15.7 centimetres long, pointed at one end and notched at the other for its string, with a separate tapered bamboo handle.","function_display":"A boys’ plaything swung overhead to make a pleasing roar and drive stray horses.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tinguian","display_name":"Tinguian Patoc pabilbil bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATCH4-031.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATCH4-031_thumb.jpg","alt":"Field Museum catalogue card for the Tinguian pabilbil from Patoc, Abra, Luzon, with handwritten notes and a drawing of a long pole suspending a narrow bullroarer blade on a cord.","credit":"Field Museum of Natural History (cat. 109123); R. F. Cummings Expedition, F. C. Cole 1907–8","license":"Field Museum catalogue card; non-commercial research use","source_page":"https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Field Museum catalogue card for the Tinguian pabilbil bullroarer from Patoc, Abra, Luzon, with a drawing of the object."},"slug":"sea-004-tinguian-patoc"}