{"id":"TUCCI1969-008","label":"Marzi whip-handled bullroarer","people_or_site":"Boys of Marzi, Cosenza","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Calabria / Cosenza","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"Italian","object_description":"Flat rectangular blade, terminal cord-hole, the single cord tied to a long handle-stick; a cane-cylinder variant existed beside it.","function_summary":"Boys' toy in a complex whip-handled form.","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. 373 with figure","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Marzi town anchor, Cosenza; Mapcarta / GeoNames 2524239, with nearby agreement in the Comune-Italia directory; not an exact observation point. GeoNames: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Marzi in the Cosenza mountains boys kept two elaborate rombi side by side, each under its own name. One, a cane cylinder whirled on a horsehair, was the raganella — the tree frog. The other, and the finer, put the whirling blade on the end of a whip: a flat slat, bored and corded, tied to a long handle, so the player swung it in circles like a lash.","pull_quote":"Le due forme riscontrate contemporaneamente a Marzi (Cosenza), e per ciascuna i ragazzi usano una denominazione diversa.","pull_quote_translation":"The two forms were found together at Marzi (Cosenza), and for each the boys use a different name.","pull_quote_cite":"Giovanni Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia', Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), pp. 372-373","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":"Flat rectangular blade, terminal cord-hole, the single cord tied to a long handle-stick; a cane-cylinder variant existed beside it.","function_display":"Boys' toy in a complex whip-handled form.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"boys marzi","display_name":"Marzi whip-handled bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/TUCCI1969-008_tucci1969_p373_marzi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/TUCCI1969-008_tucci1969_p373_marzi_thumb.jpg","alt":"A drawing of a Marzi rig with a rectangular perforated blade linked by a long cord to a separate whip handle.","credit":"Giovanni Tucci, Rivista di Etnografia XXIII (1969), p. 373","license":"© Rivista di Etnografia / Tucci heirs — rehosted low-res line drawing for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/2/22023964/studi_giovannitucci_tae21.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Tucci's drawing of the Marzi rig — the bored blade on its cord, tied to the long whip-handle."},"slug":"tucci1969-008-boys-of-marzi-cosenza"}