ATL1966-001 - museum specimen
Leonce Mano / Guidanson, Commensacq
France - Landes - Gascogne - Atlantic Europe
Weather / fertility magic
burrumbe French
Source term: rhombe / burrumbe
burrumbe — the local Landes name for the rhombe (bullroarer), a thin board whirled on a cord; the source links it to the Basque names burruna and furrunfurra.
On 21 June 1965, in his workshop in the Guidanson quarter of Commensacq, in the pine country of the Landes de Gascogne, Léonce Mano made a whirled wooden board and played it for the ethnomusicologists Claudie Marcel-Dubois and Maguy Pichonnet-Andral, who recorded him as he spun it; Marcel-Dubois photographed him at the bench. He called it a burrumbe, the local name for the rhombe. As it was told to the two researchers, the sound would put a boar or a wolf to flight; elsewhere, the article notes, such an instrument served to keep pigs — herded in the open by young boys — out of the cultivated fields. The rhombe Mano made entered the Mucem collections, and the recording of him playing it survives in the Landes survey archive.
ici, il ferait fuir le sanglier ou bien le loup, comme il le sera dit à Marcel-Dubois et à Pichonnet-Andral
here, it would put the boar or the wolf to flight, as was told to Marcel-Dubois and Pichonnet-Andral
Les Réveillées (EHESS-CNRS / Mucem), "Le rhombe"
- Object
- Mucem object 1966.114.4 is a rhombe made by Leonce Mano during the 1965-1966 Landes field survey; Les Reveillees links it to photographs of Mano making and playing the instrument.
- Function
- Rural French rhombe survival documented in a Landes ethnomusicology survey; the contextual article describes such instruments as frightening or repelling animals such as boar, wolves, or pigs.
- Map confidence
- high - Commensacq commune anchor from the source locality; the source narrows the workshop/neighborhood to Guidanson but not a public house coordinate.
- Source location
- Les Reveillees object page; contextual article; Mucem inventory 1966.114.4
- Weather / fertility magic