{"id":"CREM1976-001","label":"Aka eagle-flight monkey scarer","people_or_site":"Aka (BaAka/Bayaka/Babenzele/Mbenzele); Kenga village, Engedi camp, Moboma commune","country_current":"Central African Republic","historic_region":"Lobaye Prefecture","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"rhombe à singe","source_language":"French; Aka","object_description":"A bullroarer recorded in performance alongside a monkey whip in the Lobaye forest at Engedi camp, near Kenga, Central African Republic; the instrument's own form and vernacular name are not recorded.","function_summary":"Whirled with a monkey whip to imitate an eagle's flight and frighten a monkey.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"crem_bahuchet_aka_kenga_1976","source_type":"institutional_sound_archive","source_url":"https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_2020_084_009_02/","page_or_plate":"Catalog item and embedded audio player","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Moboma commune regional anchor for catalogued Kenga village/Engedi camp; camp not independently geocoded","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Aka families live by net-hunting, honey and gathering in the rainforest of the Lobaye, in the southwest of the Central African Republic, and are known far beyond it for the dense interlocking polyphony of their singing. Away from that repertoire sits a working sound. In Engedi camp, near Kenga village, on 1 November 1976, Serge Bahuchet recorded a monkey whip, tòmbó, and a monkey bullroarer used together to counterfeit the flight of an eagle overhead and frighten the monkey, kémà.","pull_quote":"Fouet à singe (tòmbó) et rhombe à singe (utilisés pour imiter le vol de l'aigle et pour faire peur au singe) ; singe (kémà).","pull_quote_translation":"Monkey whip (tòmbó) and monkey bullroarer (used to imitate the eagle's flight and frighten the monkey); monkey (kémà).","pull_quote_cite":"CREM-CNRS item CNRSMH_I_2020_084_009_02, collected by Serge Bahuchet, recorded 1 November 1976.","term_gloss":"monkey bullroarer","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"CREM-CNRS item CNRSMH_I_2020_084_009_02, Fouet et rhombe à singe; collector Serge Bahuchet; recorded 1 November 1976","url":"https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_2020_084_009_02/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260217145846/https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_2020_084_009_02/"}],"source_citations":"CREM-CNRS item CNRSMH_I_2020_084_009_02, Fouet et rhombe à singe; collector Serge Bahuchet; recorded 1 November 1976","source_display":"CREM-CNRS item CNRSMH_I_2020_084_009_02, Fouet et rhombe à singe; collector Serge Bahuchet; recorded 1 November 1976","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer recorded in performance alongside a monkey whip in the Lobaye forest at Engedi camp, near Kenga, Central African Republic; the instrument's own form and vernacular name are not recorded.","function_display":"Whirled with a monkey whip to imitate an eagle's flight and frighten a monkey.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"aka baaka","display_name":"Aka eagle-flight monkey scarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/mqb/mqb_71-1995-23-4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/mqb/thumbs/mqb_71-1995-23-4_thumb.jpg","credit":"© musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (71.1995.23.4)","license":"© musée du quai Branly — rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=71.1995.23.4","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Aka epépé leaf lashed to a whirling rod, Lobaye","pool_id":"auto-mqb--mqb_71-1995-23-4"},"slug":"crem1976-001-aka-baaka-bayaka-babenzele-mbenzele-kenga-village-engedi-camp-moboma-commune"}