The Bullroarer Atlas

GONCZI1914-001 - museum specimen

Kissziget, Zala county (Goecsej Hungarian folk)

Hungary - Zala county (Goecsej region) - Central Europe

Play / practical

Four Gocsej and Hetes children's bugato rigs, Gonczi 1914, figs. 18–21; the outer figures preserve the complete whip-mounted form. Regional...
Representative image. Four Gocsej and Hetes children's bugato rigs, Gonczi 1914, figs. 18–21; the outer figures preserve the complete whip-mounted form. Regional figures, not the exact Kissziget NM 44622 object. Ferenc Gonczi, Gocsej s kapcsolatosan Hetes videkenek es nepenek osszevontabb ismertetese (1914), figs. 18–21 Public domain Image source
A wooden whirrer excavated at medieval Novgorod, shown here for the general European form; the Kissziget zugattyú itself (Néprajzi Múzeum NM...
Representative image. A wooden whirrer excavated at medieval Novgorod, shown here for the general European form; the Kissziget zugattyú itself (Néprajzi Múzeum NM 44622) is published only in watermarked form. © Новгородский музей-заповедник (НГМ КП 44219/381) Image source

bugato / buengik (Goenczi); zugattyu (museum term) Hungarian

Source term: bugato

bugato (Goecsej Hungarian; dialect buengik) - a whirled bull-roarer toy: a ruler-like board pierced or notched at one end, swung in a circle on a strong cord, sometimes from a whip handle. Museum standard term: zugattyu.

Children in Göcsej sent the bugató humming in circles: a flat, ruler-like board on hemp cord, sometimes held directly and sometimes driven from a stick like a whip. The Kissziget example preserves the more spectacular rig—a forty-centimetre hardwood blade flying from a half-metre handle.

A bugatok vagy buengik... kisebb-nagyobb vonalzoszerue deszkacskak. Ezeknek egyik veget kilyukasztjak... es ennek veget megfogva, a deszkat koeralakban csovaljak, mely a gyors mozgas koevetkezteben zug-bug. Nemelyik bugatonak a madzagjat nyelre koetik s ezzel a nyellel hajtjak.

The bugatok, or buengik, are smaller or larger ruler-like little boards. One end is pierced... and holding the cord's free end, the board is whirled in a circle, which hums and roars from the rapid motion. On some, the cord is tied to a handle, and it is driven with this handle.

Goenczi, Goecsej (Kaposvar, 1914), p. 546.
Object
Ruler-like hardwood blade, 40.5 × 4.9 × 0.4 cm, with a carved neck holding 23 cm of hemp cord tied to a 49 cm whip-stick handle; NM 44622.
Function
Children’s toy, driven in circles from a whip handle until it hummed and roared.
Map confidence
high - Kissziget village, Zala county (Lenti district); museum gives the village as creation, use, and collection place
Source location
Goenczi 1914, p. 546 (figs. 18-21); NM 44622

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