{"id":"EXH2026-021","label":"Wanyanza","people_or_site":"Wanyanza (NE Congo)","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 (de Jonghe list).","function_summary":"Listed by de Jonghe among the Babali-neighbour initiation-rhombe peoples.","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","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Rough regional point in north-eastern Congo, in the Babali initiation belt, where de Jonghe lists the Wanyanza among the Babali's neighbours; the name cannot be tied to a known locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Wanyanza are little more than a name. Édouard de Jonghe listed them in 1936 among the Babali's neighbours who shared the same droning initiation rite, its sounding board swung on a cord like a sling to frighten the uninitiated. Here the roll-call outlived the people it named.","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 bound to the tribal-initiation complex which \"is found, with some variants, among the neighbours of the Babali: Bakumu, Babira, Wanyanza, Bangelima, Barundi, Bapopoi, Wagenia and Lokele.\"","pull_quote_cite":"Soderberg 1956:184, quoting de Jonghe 1936:62-63","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 (de Jonghe list).","function_display":"Listed by de Jonghe among the Babali-neighbour initiation-rhombe peoples.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wanyanza","display_name":"Wanyanza","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":"A notched Dii blade with cord and toggle, Cameroon.","pool_id":"auto-bergen_duru_e7772"},"slug":"exh2026-021-wanyanza-ne-congo"}