{"id":"TUCCI1969-004","label":"Petriolo svendola","people_or_site":"Boys of Petriolo, Macerata","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Marche / Macerata","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"svendola","source_term":"","source_language":"Italian","object_description":"Thin board with a terminal cord-hole; single cord held in the fingers.","function_summary":"Autumn boys' game.","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. 369","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Petriolo town, Macerata province.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Petriolo in the Marche the svendola was an autumn toy, and making one had its own small craft: the cord-hole was bored wide with a red-hot knitting needle, so that no sharp edge would cut the string in mid-flight. The folklorist Giovanni Ginobili, who grew up with it, remembered it whirled in every direction — even over the head.","pull_quote":"La svendola … nella mia infanzia era grandemente in uso a Petriolo, terra mia natale.","pull_quote_translation":"The svendola, in my childhood, was greatly in use at Petriolo, the town where I was born.","pull_quote_cite":"Giovanni Ginobili to Tucci, 24 Dec. 1961 (Tucci 1969, p. 369)","term_gloss":"","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":"Thin board with a terminal cord-hole; single cord held in the fingers.","function_display":"Autumn boys' game.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"boys petriolo","display_name":"Petriolo svendola","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HAD1898-043_maa_1922_391.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HAD1898-043_maa_1922_391_thumb.jpg","alt":"East Derbyshire bummer, an oak blade toothed along its far half with a bundled cord tied at the squared end.","credit":"Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge, 1922.391","license":"© Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/448383/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Haddon's East Derbyshire bummer: half-serrated oak blade.","pool_id":"auto-HAD1898-043_maa_1922_391"},"slug":"tucci1969-004-boys-of-petriolo-macerata"}