GONCZI1914-001 - museum specimen
Kissziget (Goecsej) whip-mounted zugattyu
Hungary - Zala county (Goecsej region) - Central Europe
Play / practical
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
Page references
Goenczi 1914, p. 546 (figs. 18-21); NM 44622
- Toy / secular survival