TUCCI1969-003 - ethnographic attestation
Poffabro rombo (spatola)
Friuli - Val Colvera - Europe - Northeast Italy
Play / practical
spatola Italian
spatola — 'spatula', for the blade's shape; rombo is the standard Italian name.
At Poffabro, a stone village in the Colvera valley of Friuli, the rombo — locally the spatola, for its spatula shape — belonged above all to Holy Week. Cut from whatever wood was to hand and swung on a cord held between two fingers, it sounded through the fields and streets; but it was never carried into the church.
Il rombo (spatola) si usa specialmente durante la Settimana Santa nei campi e per le strade, ma non si porta in chiesa.
The rombo (spatola) is used especially during Holy Week, in the fields and along the streets, but it is not carried into the church.
Perusini's report, quoted in Tucci, 'Studi e ricerche sul rombo in Italia' (1969), p. 366
- Object
- Cut from any wood to hand, in the shape of a spatula, of any size; whirled on a cord held between two fingers.
- Function
- Played above all during Holy Week, in the fields and streets — but never carried into the church.
- Map confidence
- medium - Poffabro village, Comune di Frisanco.
- Source location
- Tucci 1969, p. 366
- Toy / secular survival