{"id":"TUCCI1969-003","label":"Poffabro rombo (spatola)","people_or_site":"Poffabro (Frisanco), Colvera valley, Pordenone","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Friuli / Val Colvera","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"spatola","source_term":"","source_language":"Italian","object_description":"Cut from any wood to hand, in the shape of a spatula; whirled on a cord held between two fingers.","function_summary":"Played above all during Holy Week, in the fields and streets — but never carried into the church.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"tucci_1969_rombo_italia","source_type":"ethnographic_survey","source_url":"https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf","page_or_plate":"Tucci 1969, p. 366","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Poffabro village, Comune di Frisanco.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Poffabro, a stone village in the Colvera valley of Friuli, the rombo — locally the spatola, for its spatula shape — belonged above all to Holy Week. Cut from whatever wood was to hand and swung on a cord held between two fingers, it sounded through the fields and streets; but it was never carried into the church.","pull_quote":"Il rombo (spatola) si usa specialmente durante la Settimana Santa nei campi e per le strade, ma non si porta in chiesa.","pull_quote_translation":"The rombo (spatola) is used especially during Holy Week, in the fields and along the streets, but it is not carried into the church.","pull_quote_cite":"Perusini's report, quoted in Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia' (1969), p. 366","term_gloss":"spatola — 'spatula', for the blade's shape; rombo is the standard Italian name.","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":"Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), pp. 363-377","url":"https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917113515/https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), pp. 363-377","source_display":"Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia,' Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), pp. 363-377","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Cut from any wood to hand, in the shape of a spatula; whirled on a cord held between two fingers.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"poffabro","display_name":"Poffabro rombo (spatola)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAD1898-002_maa_1922-392_ballycastle.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAD1898-002_maa_1922-392_ballycastle_thumb.jpg","alt":"Ballycastle pine bullroarer, a plain pale lath with cord wrapped around its end hole.","credit":"Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge (1922.392)","license":"No open licence stated (Cambridge MAA online image) — rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects-and-photographs/?keyword=1922.392","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Ballycastle bullroarer, a plain pine lath.","pool_id":"auto-HAD1898-002_maa_1922-392_ballycastle"},"slug":"tucci1969-003-poffabro-frisanco-colvera-valley-pordenone"}