{"id":"SEA-008","label":"Jalor (Yala) Malays","people_or_site":"Jalor (Yala) Malays","country_current":"Thailand","historic_region":"Patani region, Kampong Jalor (Yala, S. Thailand)","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Mainland","local_name":"baling / baling / berbaling","source_term":"baling","source_language":"","object_description":"Very thin bamboo blade (~8 in) on a string and stick, whirled to produce a humming sound. PRM 1902.88.100 is a complete Jalor example: blade 200 x 17 mm, with cord and a 330 mm whirling stick.","function_summary":"Formerly used to scare elephants from plantations; now nearly obsolete, occasionally a child's toy.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"mining2026","source_type":"secondary_literature","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/fasciculimalayen02anna","page_or_plate":"p. 11 (item 31; Fig. 5) | PRM 1902.88.100","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"approximate territory centroid (mining 2026)","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the Malay villages of Jalor, now Yala in southern Thailand, the baling or berbaling drove elephants out of the plantations: a very thin bamboo blade, eight inches by three-quarters, strung to a slender stick and whirled to a hum. When Annandale and Robinson collected one at Kampong Jalor in 1901-02 the device was already nearly obsolete, kept up mainly as a child's toy — a farm voice slipping into play.","pull_quote":"Now almost obsolete, but occasionally made as a Malay child's toy. Formerly it was used for scaring elephants from plantations.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Annandale & Robinson, Fasciculi Malayenses, Anthropology Pt II(a) (1904), p. 11, item 31","term_gloss":"Malay baling (also berbaling), \"whizzing-stick,\" the term Annandale and Robinson recorded at Jalor. At Biserat, W. W. Skeat took down another name: brong-brong gajah, gajah being \"elephant.\"","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":"Malay baling (also berbaling) means \"turnabout\" — something that whirls or turns around, from the verb baling, to whirl or throw in a circular motion overhead. The same word also names the toy wind-mills.","literal_gloss":"turnabout (something that whirls/turns around)","semantic_cluster":"motion_sound","etymology_confidence":"medium","sources":[{"citation":"Annandale & Robinson, Fasciculi Malayenses, Anthropology Pt II(a) (1904), p. 11, item 31","url":"https://archive.org/details/fasciculimalayen02anna/page/11/mode/1up"},{"citation":"Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.88.100, Kampong Jalor, baling/berbaling complete rig.","url":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-200357","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917174840/https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39663"}],"source_citations":"Annandale & Robinson, Fasciculi Malayenses, Anthropology Pt II(a) (1904), p. 11, item 31; Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.88.100, Kampong Jalor, baling/berbaling complete rig.","source_display":"Annandale & Robinson, Fasciculi Malayenses, Anthropology Pt II(a) (1904), p. 11, item 31; Pitt Rivers Museum 1902.88.100, Kampong Jalor, baling/berbaling complete rig.","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Very thin bamboo blade (~8 in) on a string and stick, whirled to produce a humming sound. PRM 1902.88.100 is a complete Jalor example: blade 200 x 17 mm, with cord and a 330 mm whirling stick.","function_display":"Formerly used to scare elephants from plantations; now nearly obsolete, occasionally a child's toy.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"jalor malays","display_name":"Jalor (Yala) Malays","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/SEA-008_prm_1902_88_100.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_15/thumbs/SEA-008_prm_1902_88_100_thumb.jpg","alt":"Jalor baling or berbaling: a complete rig with a long slightly curved whirling stick, a flat bamboo blade and cord joining them.","credit":"Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1902.88.100)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-200357","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Jalor baling or berbaling: the complete rig of bamboo blade, cord and whirling stick.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/SEA-008_fasciculi_fig5.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SEA-008_fasciculi_fig5_thumb.jpg","alt":"Engraved plate of the Kampong Jalor and Patani baling rigs, each with a thin blade, cord and separate long swinging rod, shown one above the other.","credit":"Annandale & Robinson, Fasciculi Malayenses, Anthropology Pt II (1903), fig. 5","license":"Public domain (published 1903)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/fasciculimalayen02anna","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Kampong Jalor baling with separate swinging rod, above the Patani form."}]},"slug":"sea-008-jalor-yala-malays"}