TUCCI1969-003 - ethnographic attestation
Poffabro (Frisanco), Colvera valley, Pordenone
Friuli - Val Colvera - Southern Europe (NE 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.
- 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