No. ANATOLIA-006
Anitkaya (Egret) firildak
Turkey · Afyonkarahisar · Near East · Anatolia
Play / practical
firildak
firildak: 'whirler'; at Anitkaya the name covers both the serrated whirled board and a spool toy.
At Anitkaya on the Afyon plain — Egret, in the old name — the firildak was a strip of board four centimetres by fifteen, its edges cut into teeth, a string at its end. Whirled in the air it sounded; that is the whole of the village dictionary's definition, and the whole of the toy. The serrated edge that roughens its voice is the same trick Turkish villages used from Çankırı to Burdur.
Particulars
- Object
- A board 4 x 15 cm with serrated edges, a string tied to its end, whirled in the air.
- Function
- Village toy, whirled on its string until it sounds.
Source
Egreti Koy village lexicon, s.v. firildak, sense 1