ETNIKER1993-001 - ethnographic attestation
Artajona shoe-polish-tin zumbaderas
Spain - Artajona - Navarra - Europe - Iberia
Play / practical
zumbaderas
Source term: zumbadera
zumbadera: Spanish, 'buzzer,' from zumbar, to buzz; the page groups these improvised whirlers with the bramaderas, the wooden boards swung for the same sound.
Shoe polish came in flat tins, and the lids had a second life. Children in Artajona folded them over, flattened them, tied them to a cord, took the far end and swung them in circles until the metal buzzed: zumbaderas, from zumbar, to buzz. The man who wrote them down for the Etniker survey of children's games, José María Jimeno Jurío, was recording his own village — he was born in Artajona in 1927, and spent a working life documenting it.
En Artajona (N) a ciertos artilugios de este tipo se les llamaba zumbaderas. Se preparaban con tapas de cajas de betún doblándolas y aplastándolas por la mitad y sujetándolas con una cuerda que se cogía por el otro cabo y se hacía girar en círculos para que produjese ruido.
Grupos Etniker Euskalerria, Juegos infantiles en Vasconia (1993), p. 699
- Object
- Folded flattened shoe-polish-tin lids fastened to a single cord.
- Function
- Children swung them in circles to make noise.
- Source
- Grupos Etniker Euskalerria, Juegos infantiles en Vasconia (1993), p. 699
- Source location
- p. 699
- Source confidence
- high Artajona town anchor.
- Toy / secular survival