{"id":"SEM2026-001","label":"Slovenia brnivka bullroarer","people_or_site":"Slovenia (maker and locality not recorded)","country_current":"Slovenia","historic_region":"Slovenia","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"brnivka","source_term":"brnivka","source_language":"Slovene","object_description":"Flat board with one hole and a single cord, spun quickly through the air around its axis.","function_summary":"A children's sound-toy: Slovene schoolchildren tied a holed ruler to a cord and spun it roaring through the air.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"sem_630_lju_0021839_brnivka","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/digitalne-zbirke/ljudska-glasbila/630lju0021839","page_or_plate":"630:LJU;0021839","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Museum-published Slovenia-level coordinate; object 630:LJU;0021839 has country provenance only.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Slovene schoolchildren made the brnivka from the schoolroom itself: tie a cord through the hole of a wooden ruler, spin it fast through the air, and the ruler roars. The folk-music scholar Zmaga Kumer classed the toy among Slovenia's folk instruments, and this homemade twentieth-century example is exactly that lesson-hour instrument — a one-holed wooden slat on a cord.","pull_quote":"Na ravnilo z luknjico ... navežemo ... vrvico in ga nato vrtimo po zraku okoli svoje osi precej hitro.","pull_quote_translation":"We tie a cord to a ruler with a hole, then spin it quickly through the air around its axis.","pull_quote_cite":"Slovene teaching resource, Glasbila, brnivka mechanics","term_gloss":"brnivka = Slovene name for the cord-whirled sound-maker.","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":"Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 630:LJU;0021839, 'brnivka'","url":"https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/digitalne-zbirke/ljudska-glasbila/630lju0021839","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20230128224553/https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/digitalne-zbirke/ljudska-glasbila/630lju0021839"}],"source_citations":"Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 630:LJU;0021839, 'brnivka'","source_display":"Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 630:LJU;0021839, 'brnivka'","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Flat board with one hole and a single cord, spun quickly through the air around its axis.","function_display":"A children's sound-toy: Slovene schoolchildren tied a holed ruler to a cord and spun it roaring through the air.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"slovenia maker","display_name":"Slovenia brnivka bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SEM2026-001_sem_0021839.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SEM2026-001_sem_0021839_thumb.jpg","alt":"A wooden brnivka bullroarer with a broad tapered blade and white cord tied through a hole near one end.","credit":"Slovenski etnografski muzej, 630:LJU;0021839","license":"© Slovene Ethnographic Museum — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research (contact-to-license)","source_page":"https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/digitalne-zbirke/ljudska-glasbila/630lju0021839","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The brnivka itself: a homemade lanceolate slat, its white cord tied through the single hole."},"slug":"sem2026-001-slovenia-maker-and-locality-not-recorded"}