{"id":"JENSEN1936-003","label":"Gedeo Darassa emimissa restricted bullroarer","people_or_site":"Gedeo (historically Darassa / Darasa)","country_current":"Ethiopia","historic_region":"Gedeo highlands / southern Ethiopia","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"emimissa","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German / Darassa term","object_description":"Bullroarer identified by instrument class; no material, dimensions, cord, perforation, blade shape, mechanics, handle, or object figure is supplied.","function_summary":"Cult implement carefully hidden from women.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"jensen_wohlenberg_1936_darassa_emimissa","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=1mfu2PiDBwkC&pg=PA178&dq=%22Gato%22+%22Schwirrholz%22&hl=en","page_or_plate":"p. 178; glossary p. 575 in original pagination, visible at Google preview PA314","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"UNESCO Gedeo Cultural Landscape reference area; not claimed as an exact performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Gedeo, historically called the Darassa, the emimissa was a cult instrument hidden from women — anxiously hidden, Jensen wrote. Its name survives from a ceremonial life in which the bullroarer's sound belonged to restricted knowledge.","pull_quote":"Das Schwirrholz, bei den Darassa noch ein kultisches Werkzeug und vor den Frauen ängstlich verborgen ...","pull_quote_translation":"The bullroarer, among the Darassa still a cult implement kept anxiously hidden from women ...","pull_quote_cite":"Jensen, Wohlenberg and Wohlenberg 1936:178","term_gloss":"emimissa: the Darassa (Gedeo) name for the bullroarer.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Jensen, Wohlenberg and Wohlenberg, Im Lande des Gada (1936; reprinted as Im südlichen Abessinien), p. 178 and glossary p. 575","url":"https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=1mfu2PiDBwkC&pg=PA178&dq=%22Gato%22+%22Schwirrholz%22&hl=en","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013012703/https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=1mfu2PiDBwkC&pg=PA178&dq=%22Gato%22+%22Schwirrholz%22&hl=en"}],"source_citations":"Jensen, Wohlenberg and Wohlenberg, Im Lande des Gada (1936; reprinted as Im südlichen Abessinien), p. 178 and glossary p. 575","source_display":"Jensen, Wohlenberg and Wohlenberg, Im Lande des Gada (1936; reprinted as Im südlichen Abessinien), p. 178 and glossary p. 575","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Bullroarer identified by instrument class; no material, dimensions, cord, perforation, blade shape, mechanics, handle, or object figure is supplied.","function_display":"Cult implement carefully hidden from women.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"gedeo historically","display_name":"Gedeo Darassa emimissa restricted bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-095_mus2026-095-amhara-rorata-furrit.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-095_mus2026-095-amhara-rorata-furrit_thumb.jpg","alt":"Amhara Rorata / Furrit from Gondar: a long wooden wand lies horizontally with a broad blade suspended from it on a short cord.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 71.1931.74.2995","license":"Rights reserved (© Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac); authorization required for reproduction; proposed for non-commercial research.","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&value=71.1931.74.2995","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"An Amhara blade with cord and wand, Gondar, Ethiopia.","pool_id":"auto-MUS2026-095_mus2026-095-amhara-rorata-furrit"},"slug":"jensen1936-003-gedeo-historically-darassa-darasa"}