{"id":"STEFOPOULOS1972-001","label":"Chrysi board vourvouna","people_or_site":"Children of Chrysi, Kastoria","country_current":"Greece","historic_region":"Chrysi (Χρυσή), Nestorio municipality, Kastoria regional unit, West Macedonia","macroregion":"Europe / Mediterranean","local_name":"βουρβούνα μὲ σανίδι (vourvoúna me sanídi)","source_term":"Βουρβούνα μὲ σανίδι","source_language":"Greek","object_description":"A small board about 5 by 10 cm, thinned along both sides, with a little hole at the centre of one short end, tied to a string 50–80 cm long that ends in a loop for the hand.","function_summary":"Children’s sound toy, whirled hard by the loop until the board spins about itself and hums.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"stefopoulos1972_chrysi_vourvouna","source_type":"ethnographic_article","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.12681/makedonika.1014","page_or_plate":"p. 369 §2β (board vourvouna); p. 368 §2α and fig. 2 (bark-disc vourvouna); p. 362 (method, ages)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Chrysi village (OpenStreetMap node; GeoNames 735756 agrees), Nestorio municipality, Kastoria; the village whose games the article records.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Chrysi, a village in the Kastoria district of Greek Macedonia, children played from about the age of five until twelve; once primary school was over they went to work beside their parents. Among their games were two kinds of vourvouna. One was a disc of thick pine bark with a toothed rim, spun on a doubled string. The other was a little board, five centimetres by ten, thinned along its edges and tied at one end to half a metre of string with a loop for the hand. Whirled hard, it turned over and over on itself and gave out the characteristic hum from which it took its name.","pull_quote":"Αὐτὴ ἡ κίνηση δημιουργεῖ ἕνα χαρακτηριστικὸ βουΐσμα, ποὺ ἀπ᾽ αὐτὸ πῆρε καὶ τὸ ὄνομά της.","pull_quote_translation":"This motion makes a characteristic hum, and from it the toy took its name.","pull_quote_cite":"Andreas P. Stefopoulos, Makedonika 12 (1972), p. 369","term_gloss":"vourvoúna: a Greek imitative name for a humming whirled toy, shared in Chrysi by the board and the toothed bark disc.","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":"Andreas P. Stefopoulos, “Παιδικά παραδοσιακά παιχνίδια από τη Χρυσή Καστοριάς,” Makedonika 12 (1972): 361–423, pp. 368–369.","url":"https://doi.org/10.12681/makedonika.1014"}],"source_citations":"Andreas P. Stefopoulos, “Παιδικά παραδοσιακά παιχνίδια από τη Χρυσή Καστοριάς,” Makedonika 12 (1972): 361–423, pp. 368–369.","source_display":"Andreas P. Stefopoulos, “Παιδικά παραδοσιακά παιχνίδια από τη Χρυσή Καστοριάς,” Makedonika 12 (1972): 361–423, pp. 368–369.","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A small board about 5 by 10 cm, thinned along both sides, with a little hole at the centre of one short end, tied to a string 50–80 cm long that ends in a loop for the hand.","function_display":"Children’s sound toy, whirled hard by the loop until the board spins about itself and hums.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"children chrysi","display_name":"Chrysi board vourvouna","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared/eu_novgorod.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared/eu_novgorod_thumb.jpg","alt":"A wooden whirrer excavated at medieval Novgorod.","credit":"© Новгородский музей-заповедник (НГМ КП 44219/381)","license":"In copyright — Novgorod Museum-Reserve; rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://novgorod-iss.kamiscloud.ru/entity/OBJECT/229035","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A wooden whirrer excavated at medieval Novgorod","pool_id":"auto-shared--eu_novgorod","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-11-03"},"slug":"stefopoulos1972-001-children-of-chrysi-kastoria"}