Amur master's bullroarer (Nikolai Nikolaevich U, 2005)

Source term: жужжалка (museum catalog class)

жужжалка (zhuzhzhalka), 'buzzer': the museum's catalogue name, used in Russian for whirled blades and spun discs alike.

Made in 2005 by the master Nikolai Nikolaevich U, this Amur whirrer keeps its whole working rig: an oval wooden blade, a thirty-centimetre loop of cord, and a slim handle. The blade is only 12.3 centimetres long; velvet trims the carved wood before the cord runs from its top hole to the cylindrical grip.

Фигурка из цельного куска дерева в виде овала, расширенного книзу. В верхней части в отверстие продета нить, связанная в кольцо, с другой стороны нить закреплена за цилиндрической формы палочку.

A figure carved from a single piece of wood in the form of an oval widening toward the base. Through a hole in the upper part a cord is threaded and tied in a ring; at the other side the cord is fastened to a stick of cylindrical form.

Far Eastern Art Museum, ДВХМ КП-11389 (goskatalog record)

Particulars

Object

Oval wooden blade widening toward the base, 12.3 × 3.2 × 0.4 cm, velvet-trimmed, with a doubled 30 cm cord joining its upper hole to an 11.1 cm cylindrical wooden handle. ДВХМ КП-11389, made 2005.

Function

Complete handled whirrer made by a contemporary Amur craftsperson.