{"id":"ANDERSSON1993-002","label":"Kota burnt-pattern bullroarer","people_or_site":"Kota (museum's earlier labels Kuta, Bakuta, Bakota)","country_current":"Republic of the Congo","historic_region":"Kongo-Brazzaville / French Equatorial Africa (no locality recorded)","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"vinare / bullroarer","source_language":"Swedish","object_description":"A wooden plate 19 cm long, 6.5 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick, decorated with pyrographed patterns burnt into the surface, carrying a cord that has snapped and been knotted back together; plate and surviving cord together measure 73 cm (SMVK 1993.06.0212).","function_summary":"Used in religious ceremonies; the plate sounds when whirled round in the air.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"smvk_1993_06_0212_kota_vinare","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1002104","page_or_plate":"SMVK 1993.06.0212","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Kota (Kuta/Bakota) culture-area anchor in the north-west of the Republic of the Congo, in the Cuvette-Ouest forest toward the Gabon border. The museum records only the country; no village, subgroup or findspot is given and none is inferred.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A small wooden plate, patterned all over with lines burnt into the grain, was swung around in the air at religious ceremonies until it sounded. It reached Stockholm with its cord snapped and knotted back on itself, and the museum's own cataloguer looked at what was left and said plainly what was wrong: for the thing to work, the cord would have to be a great deal longer than this. Nineteen centimetres of decorated wood and a shortened string, seventy-three centimetres in all, are the whole of what survives of the Kota instrument.","pull_quote":"För att vinaren ska fungera måste snöret vara betydligt längre. Ljudet uppstår när plattan svingas runt i luften. Används vid religiösa ceremonier.","pull_quote_translation":"For the bullroarer to work, the cord has to be considerably longer. The sound arises when the plate is swung around in the air. Used at religious ceremonies.","pull_quote_cite":"SMVK / Etnografiska museet, object record 1993.06.0212","term_gloss":"vinare: the Swedish museum's term for a bullroarer, not a Kota word. Kuta, Bakuta and Bakota are other names for the Kota.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Etnografiska museet, Stockholm (SMVK), 1993.06.0212 (Kota, Republic of the Congo; acquired from Ebba Andersson, 1993)","url":"https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1002104","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013032811/https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1002104"}],"source_citations":"Etnografiska museet, Stockholm (SMVK), 1993.06.0212 (Kota, Republic of the Congo; acquired from Ebba Andersson, 1993)","source_display":"Etnografiska museet, Stockholm (SMVK), 1993.06.0212 (Kota, Republic of the Congo; acquired from Ebba Andersson, 1993)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden plate 19 cm long, 6.5 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick, decorated with pyrographed patterns burnt into the surface, carrying a cord that has snapped and been knotted back together; plate and surviving cord together measure 73 cm (SMVK 1993.06.0212).","function_display":"Used in religious ceremonies; the plate sounds when whirled round in the air.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kota museum","display_name":"Kota burnt-pattern bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SUBSAH-011_mim_1976-038-06_gabon.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SUBSAH-011_mim_1976-038-06_gabon_thumb.jpg","alt":"Long dark wooden Gabonese blade photographed edge-on, with a raised ridge running lengthwise and small projections visible underneath.","credit":"Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels (RMAH), inv. 1976.038-06 — via MIMO","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_RMAH_95219_NL","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Gabonese bullroarer with a relief rib.","pool_id":"gabon-bromhout"},"slug":"andersson1993-002-kota-museum-s-earlier-labels-kuta-bakuta-bakota"}