{"id":"SERVIER1970-009","label":"Béarn hurrumbo pastoral bullroarer","people_or_site":"Bearn shepherds","country_current":"France","historic_region":"Bearn / Pyrenees","macroregion":"Europe / Pyrenees","local_name":"bur rumbo / hurrumbo","source_term":"rombo","source_language":"Spanish translation of French original","object_description":"A shepherd’s whirled noisemaker, the bur rumbo or hurrumbo.","function_summary":"Pastoral animal-scarer, used to drive mares from the rams’ pens.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"servier1970_invisible","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/ElHombreYLoInvisibleJeanServierD","page_or_plate":"p. 140","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Camou/Tardets area anchor from adjacent Servier source note","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Béarn, on the French side of the Pyrenees, shepherds whirled a bullroarer they called the bur rumbo or hurrumbo, not in any rite but to keep order in the fold: the droning frightened off and drove away mares that tried to push into the pens of rams. Jean Servier set the Béarn usage beside the neighboring Basque furrunfarra, a small board of wood with notched edges that the shepherd spun on a cord sometimes tied to a stick, its buzz scattering animals foreign to the flock, chiefly mares, which could panic the rams in their fold at night. The name carries the sound. In Béarn one word, bourroumbe, names both a dull roar and, in Simin Palay's dictionary of Béarnais and Gascon, the child's game of making that noise by swinging a piece of wood hard on a string.","pull_quote":"En Béarn, los pastores emplean también del [sic] \"bur rumbo\" o \"hurrumbo\" para atemorizar y separar a las yeguas que tratan de penetrar en las majadas de carneros.","pull_quote_translation":"In Béarn, the shepherds also use the bur rumbo or hurrumbo to frighten and separate the mares that try to get into the pens of the rams.","pull_quote_cite":"Jean Servier, El hombre y lo invisible (Spanish trans. of L'homme et l'invisible), p. 140","term_gloss":"Béarnais (Gascon) shepherds’ name for the whirled-wood noisemaker.","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":"From Béarnais bourroumbe, a dull, muffled roar — which in Palay's dictionary also names the child's game of whirling a piece of wood on a string to make that sound. An onomatopoeic motion-sound word.","literal_gloss":"a dull/muffled roar; (also) the child's game of whirling a piece of wood on a string to make a noise","semantic_cluster":"motion_sound / toy_or_game","etymology_confidence":"high","sources":[{"citation":"Jean Servier, El hombre y lo invisible, Spanish translation of L’homme et l’invisible, p. 140; Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires account via Servier","url":"https://archive.org/details/ElHombreYLoInvisibleJeanServierD"}],"source_citations":"Jean Servier, El hombre y lo invisible, Spanish translation of L’homme et l’invisible, p. 140; Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires account via Servier","source_display":"Jean Servier, El hombre y lo invisible, Spanish translation of L’homme et l’invisible, p. 140; Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires account via Servier","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A shepherd’s whirled noisemaker, the bur rumbo or hurrumbo.","function_display":"Pastoral animal-scarer, used to drive mares from the rams’ pens.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bearn shepherds","display_name":"Béarn hurrumbo pastoral bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SERVIER1970-009.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SERVIER1970-009_thumb.jpg","alt":"Juan Mari Beltrán with his right arm raised during a Basque burruna demonstration, on a road before white houses and green hills.","credit":"Soinuenea, via Wikimedia Commons","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juan_Mari_Beltran_burruna_jotzen.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Juan Mari Beltrán swinging a Basque burruna.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_03/SERVIER1970-009_mucem_1966-114-4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_2026_10_03/thumbs/SERVIER1970-009_mucem_1966-114-4_thumb.jpg","alt":"A wooden rhombe made at Commensacq, with V-shaped notches along both long edges and a looped cord at one end.","credit":"Mucem, 1966.114.4; reproduced by Les Réveillées (EHESS)","license":"Toute reproduction, représentation, modification, publication, adaptation de tout ou partie des éléments du Site, quel que soit le moyen ou le procédé utilisé, est interdite, sauf autorisation écrite préalable de l’Éditeur. L'Editeur autorise tout internaute à consulter gratuitement ce Site et en faire usage conformément à la licence choisie (en l'occurrence, la Licence avec obligation de partage à l’identique ou License ODbL).","source_page":"https://les-reveillees.ehess.fr/enquetes/rhombe-19661144","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Notched wooden rhombe with a looped cord, made at Commensacq in the Landes."}]},"slug":"servier1970-009-bearn-shepherds"}