{"id":"BERN1903-001","label":"Mangamba bark-cord bullroarer","people_or_site":"Mangamba / Abo country; ethnic attribution unrecorded","country_current":"Cameroon","historic_region":"Abo country north of the Mungo River / German Kamerun","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"Surrholz mit Bastschnur","source_language":"German","object_description":"Wooden bullroarer with a cord of bast — inner-bark fibre.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"bern_1903_wittwer_mangamba_surrholz","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/jahresberichtdes1011bern","page_or_plate":"1903 annual report, printed p. 64; 1979 register, printed pp. 192-193","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Modern Mangamba (Bonaléa commune, Littoral Region) as a regional anchor for the Basel Mission station locality in Abo territory; the museum records give no village of manufacture or use.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A blade on a cord of bast — inner-bark fibre — reached Bern among Wittwer’s gifts from Cameroon. The mixed donation also included a great Koso drum, bamboo flutes announcing the secret-society members’ Sunday, Isango’s carved staffs, and a snake fetish with a wooden head and real snakeskin. The bullroarer got three words in the inventory: Surrholz mit Bastschnur, ‘whirring-wood with bast cord.’","pull_quote":"Fetischsachen von Geheimbünden und Anderes","pull_quote_translation":"Fetish objects of secret societies, and other things","pull_quote_cite":"Jahresbericht des Historischen Museums in Bern pro 1903, p. 64","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Jahresbericht des Historischen Museums in Bern pro 1903, p. 64; Ethnologica Helvetica 2–3 (1979), pp. 192–193","url":"https://archive.org/details/jahresberichtdes1011bern"}],"source_citations":"Jahresbericht des Historischen Museums in Bern pro 1903, p. 64; Ethnologica Helvetica 2–3 (1979), pp. 192–193","source_display":"Jahresbericht des Historischen Museums in Bern pro 1903, p. 64; Ethnologica Helvetica 2–3 (1979), pp. 192–193","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Wooden bullroarer with a cord of bast — inner-bark fibre.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mangamba","display_name":"Mangamba bark-cord bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/bergen_duru_e7772.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/bergen_duru_e7772_thumb.jpg","alt":"Dii bullroarer E 7772: long wooden blade with a scalloped edge, cord, and toggle handle.","credit":"University Museum of Bergen (E 7772), photo Stine Dornfest, via DigitaltMuseum","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.no/0210112461933/etnografisk-samling-gjenstandsfoto","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Dii bullroarer with notched blade, cord, and toggle handle.","pool_id":"auto-bergen_duru_e7772"},"slug":"bern1903-001-mangamba-abo-country-ethnic-attribution-unrecorded"}