LECOQ1916-001 - museum specimen
Turfan Uyghur (Turki), Kara Khoja
China - Kara Khoja (Qara Chodscha - Gaochang), Turfan oasis, Xinjiang - Central Asia
Play / practical
yongpuldurpic German
Source term: Schwirrholz (yongpuldurpic)
yongpuldurpic (Turfan Turki/Uyghur, as transcribed by Le Coq 1916) - the swung bullroarer: a small flat board on a cotton cord tied to a cotton-plant twig handle. Le Coq's yongyulduryuc (Fig. 9) is the distinct pull-cord tamarisk buzzer.
Children at Kara Khoja made the yongpuldurpic from the plants around them: a small flat board tied with cotton cord to a twig cut from a cotton stalk. Swung by the twig handle, the little blade whirred above the Turfan oasis.
Das echte Schwirrholz haben wir nur in der Gegend von Turfan gesehen... Kleines flaches Brettchen, mit Baumwollschnur an einem Aestchen der Baumwollpflanze befestigt. Qara Chodscha.
The genuine bullroarer we have seen only in the area of Turfan... A small flat little board, fastened with a cotton cord to a small twig of the cotton plant. Kara Khoja.
Le Coq, Volkskundliches aus Ost-Turkistan (1916), ch. II, Fig. 8 caption and text.
- Object
- Small flat wooden blade attached by cotton cord to a cotton-plant twig handle; Berlin I B 4111.
- Function
- Children’s whirled toy.
- Map confidence
- medium_high - Kara Khoja / Gaochang ruins settlement, Turfan oasis; Le Coq and the SMB record both give the locality
- Source location
- Le Coq 1916, ch. II, Fig. 8; SMB I B 4111
- Toy / secular survival