{"id":"EXH2026-019","label":"Wagenia (Genya)","people_or_site":"Wagenia (Genya), Kisangani rapids","country_current":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","historic_region":"NE Congo (Babali initiation belt)","macroregion":"Africa / Central Africa","local_name":"","source_term":"rhombe","source_language":"French","object_description":"Rhombe of the NE-Congo tribal-initiation complex.","function_summary":"Rhombe tied to the tribal initiation complex of the Babali and their neighbours (de Jonghe).","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"exhaustiveness2026","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/monographseries03","page_or_plate":"Soderberg pp. 184-185; de Jonghe 1936 pp. 62-63","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Wagenia fisheries at Kisangani","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At Kisangani the Wagenia lash tall wooden tripods into the Boyoma (Stanley) Falls, wedging cone-shaped basket traps into the whitewater to haul fish from the roaring rapids — a craft handed down the male line for generations. These same falls-fishers stand in the belt of forest initiation that Édouard de Jonghe traced outward from the Babali: a complex found 'with some variations' among the Bakumu, Babira, Wagenia, Lokele and their neighbours, and the bullroarer is bound to it wherever it runs.","pull_quote":"de Jonghe a souligné que le rhombe est lié au complexe d'initiation tribale qui «se rencontre avec quelques variantes chez les voisins des Babali: Bakumu, Babira, Wanyanza, Bangelima, Barundi, Bapopoi, Wagenia et Lokele».","pull_quote_translation":"de Jonghe stressed that the bullroarer is tied to the tribal-initiation complex which \"is found, with some variations, among the neighbors of the Babali: Bakumu, Babira, Wanyanza, Bangelima, Barundi, Bapopoi, Wagenia, and Lokele.\"","pull_quote_cite":"Söderberg 1956:184, quoting de Jonghe 1936:62","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"E. de Jonghe, 'Formations récentes de sociétés secrètes au Congo belge,' Africa 9(1) (1936), pp. 62-63, quoted in Bertil Söderberg, Les instruments de musique au Bas-Congo et dans les régions avoisinantes (1956), pp. 184-185","url":"https://archive.org/details/monographseries03"}],"source_citations":"E. de Jonghe, 'Formations récentes de sociétés secrètes au Congo belge,' Africa 9(1) (1936), pp. 62-63, quoted in Bertil Söderberg, Les instruments de musique au Bas-Congo et dans les régions avoisinantes (1956), pp. 184-185","source_display":"E. de Jonghe, 'Formations récentes de sociétés secrètes au Congo belge,' Africa 9(1) (1936), pp. 62-63, quoted in Bertil Söderberg, Les instruments de musique au Bas-Congo et dans les régions avoisinantes (1956), pp. 184-185","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rhombe of the NE-Congo tribal-initiation complex.","function_display":"Rhombe tied to the tribal initiation complex of the Babali and their neighbours (de Jonghe).","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wagenia","display_name":"Wagenia (Genya)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared/kmma_congo_snorhout_mr1973_14_1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared/kmma_congo_snorhout_mr1973_14_1_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, narrow Congo Basin bullroarer blade with dark triangular and crossbar designs, attached to a pale cord.","credit":"© KMMA / Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren","license":"© KMMA","source_page":"https://music.africamuseum.be/instruments/english/congo%20drc/nara_kwei.html","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A decorated Leele roarer from the Kasai (Tervuren).","pool_id":"auto-shared--kmma_congo_snorhout_mr1973_14_1"},"slug":"exh2026-019-wagenia-genya-kisangani-rapids"}