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GAZDA1980-001 - ethnographic attestation

Székely Hungarian children (Esztelnek)

Romania - Covasna - Esztelnek (Estelnic) - Eastern Europe

Play / practical

Representative—not this record’s object: a German Schwirrholz toy from the Nuremberg Toy Museum.
Representative—not this record’s object: a German Schwirrholz toy from the Nuremberg Toy Museum. Spielzeugmuseum der Stadt Nürnberg (Museum Lydia Bayer), 1974.253 — via Europeana CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Image source

surrógtató / berregtető Hungarian

Source term: Surrógtató (Berregtető)

surrógtató / berregtető = Hungarian names for this sound-making toy.

Boys in Esztelnek made the surrógtató—also called berregtető—from a pierced wooden slat 35–40 centimetres long. Whirled through the air on a string, it was a remarkably large children’s toy.

forgathassák a levegőben

so that they can whirl it in the air

Gazda 1980, item 392 / Fig. 57
Object
A 35-40 cm slat pierced at one end, tied to string, and whirled through the air.
Function
Children's toy
Map confidence
high - Estelnic municipal centre
Source location
item 392 / Fig. 57; printed p. 237

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