{"id":"STIBBE1921-002","label":"Minahasa leaf snorhout","people_or_site":"Minahasa","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Minahasa, North Sulawesi","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Indonesia","local_name":"","source_term":"snorhout","source_language":"Dutch","object_description":"A snorhout made of leaf.","function_summary":"A plaything.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"stibbe1921_spelen_minahasa","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/view?identifier=MMCMC01:000002802:00066&coll=boeken","page_or_plate":"p. 58","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Regional anchor in central Minahasa near Lake Tondano; the source names the region only.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the Minahasa, the volcanic highlands around Lake Tondano at the northern tip of Sulawesi, the whirring plaything was made not of wood but of leaf. Across the Indies the snorhout was at its simplest a slat on a cord, spun fast until it gave out a peculiar rushing hum, and as a plaything it turned up on Java, among the Toba Batak of Sumatra and on Ambon. In the Minahasa it was cut from a leaf instead.","pull_quote":"In de Minahasa worden ze van blad vervaardigd.","pull_quote_translation":"In the Minahasa they are made of leaf.","pull_quote_cite":"Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, 2nd ed., IV (1921), s.v. 'Spelen', p. 58","term_gloss":"snorhout: Dutch, \"whirring wood\", the bullroarer.","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":"D. G. Stibbe (ed.), Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, 2nd ed., IV (1921), s.v. 'Spelen', p. 58","url":"https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/view?identifier=MMCMC01:000002802:00066&coll=boeken"}],"source_citations":"D. G. Stibbe (ed.), Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, 2nd ed., IV (1921), s.v. 'Spelen', p. 58","source_display":"D. G. Stibbe (ed.), Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, 2nd ed., IV (1921), s.v. 'Spelen', p. 58","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A snorhout made of leaf.","function_display":"A plaything.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"minahasa","display_name":"Minahasa leaf snorhout","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":true,"caption":"Jalor baling or berbaling: the complete rig of bamboo blade","pool_id":"auto-review_2026_07_15--SEA-008_prm_1902_88_100","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"stibbe1921-002-minahasa"}