{"id":"EVRARD1971-001","label":"Tandroy vovo na tarimo","people_or_site":"Tandroy (Antandroy), Ambovombe","country_current":"Madagascar","historic_region":"Androy, far south of Madagascar","macroregion":"Africa / Madagascar","local_name":"vovo na tarimo","source_term":"rhombe","source_language":"French","object_description":"A pair of oval blades of rotse wood, 19 and 18 cm long, about 4 cm wide and 0.7 cm thick; one end rounded, the other narrowed and pierced for a cord of twisted two-strand sisal.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"evrard1971_orstom_tananarive_53_2_18","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2022-08/010056123.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 85, inv. 53.2.18-a,b","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Ambovombe town (Androy region; Nominatim), the catalogue's place of origin; making or playing site not specified.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Vovo is the Malagasy word for a dog’s bark. The Tandroy of Madagascar’s parched far south cut this pair of roarers at Ambovombe from rotse wood: two oval blades, eighteen and nineteen centimetres long, each rounded at one end and pinched to a neck at the other, where a hole takes a cord twisted from two strands of sisal. The Tandroy take their name from the androy, a water-filled cactus that was the one plant fit to eat all year in the dry country between the Mandrare and Menarandra rivers.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"vovo na tarimo: Tandroy name recorded with the pair. In Malagasy vovo is the barking of a dog and na means 'or'; tarimo is not glossed. Compare Tanala tavovoka and Sakalava (ki)tambovo.","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":"Dominique Evrard, Catalogue des collections ethnographiques du Musée de l’ORSTOM à Tananarive, Travaux et documents V (1971), p. 85","url":"https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2022-08/010056123.pdf"},{"citation":"Malagasy Dictionary and Encyclopedia, 'vovo' and 'Tandroy'","url":"https://malagasyword.org/bins/teny2/vovo"}],"source_citations":"Dominique Evrard, Catalogue des collections ethnographiques du Musée de l’ORSTOM à Tananarive, Travaux et documents V (1971), p. 85; Malagasy Dictionary and Encyclopedia, 'vovo' and 'Tandroy'","source_display":"Dominique Evrard, Catalogue des collections ethnographiques du Musée de l’ORSTOM à Tananarive, Travaux et documents V (1971), p. 85; Malagasy Dictionary and Encyclopedia, 'vovo' and 'Tandroy'","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A pair of oval blades of rotse wood, 19 and 18 cm long, about 4 cm wide and 0.7 cm thick; one end rounded, the other narrowed and pierced for a cord of twisted two-strand sisal.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"tandroy","display_name":"Tandroy vovo na tarimo","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SAFR-005.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SAFR-005_thumb.jpg","alt":"Red human figures labeled 1–8 across the rock face at Doring River shelter, Western Cape, South Africa; several have raised arms, with other red shapes nearby.","credit":"Neil Rusch & Sarah Wurz, “The Doring River bullroarers rock painting” (2020), J. Archaeol. Sci.: Reports 33:102511, Fig. 2","license":"Scholarly figure; non-commercial research use","source_page":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102511","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Doring River shelter, Western Cape, South Africa","pool_id":"auto-SAFR-005","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-10-19"},"slug":"evrard1971-001-tandroy-antandroy-ambovombe"}