{"id":"JORO2006-001","label":"Do fulla, mother of the Musey initiation","people_or_site":"Musey (Moussey)","country_current":"Chad","historic_region":"Mayo-Kebbi Est, Gounou Gaya (Musey country, extending into northern Cameroon)","macroregion":"Africa","local_name":"pepet-na (pepeðe-ra); do fulla","source_term":"rombe / rhombe de l’initiation","source_language":"French; Musey","object_description":"An oval initiation bullroarer, whirled to make its noises; named for its oval shape.","function_summary":"Whirled at initiation to make noises presented as the voices of the initiation divinities.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"joro2006_lexique_musey","source_type":"language_dictionary","source_url":"https://fr.scribd.com/document/736303349/Diction-Musey06-1","page_or_plate":"pp. 37, 54, 176","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Gounou Gaya, centre of the Musey country where the lexicon was compiled; no rite locality given","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the Musey of south-western Chad, the noises of initiation were given out as the voices of its divinities, and the thing that made them was called do fulla, “mother of fulla.” Fulla is the bush, the empty floodplain beyond the villages, and it is also initiation itself: to go to initiation is kal fulla. The instrument’s everyday name, pepet-na, comes from its oval shape. Whirled, it was pictured as a person with wild, tousled hair. Initiation, the Musey say, comes from Bigi.","pull_quote":"instrument utilisé pour produire des bruits en disant que ce sont les divinités de l’initiation","pull_quote_translation":"an instrument used to produce noises while saying that they are the divinities of the initiation","pull_quote_cite":"Lexique Musey (2006), p. 54","term_gloss":"pepet-na: initiation bullroarer, named for its oval shape. do fulla: “mother of fulla.” fulla: 1. the bush, uninhabited floodplain; 2. initiation (kal fulla, “go to initiation”; gor fulina, “those who have been initiated”).","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","initiation"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Mission Catholique de Joro (Gunu-Gaya), Lexique Musey: Vee ma sem slenana, 5th rev. ed. (2006), pp. 37, 54, 176","url":"https://fr.scribd.com/document/736303349/Diction-Musey06-1"}],"source_citations":"Mission Catholique de Joro (Gunu-Gaya), Lexique Musey: Vee ma sem slenana, 5th rev. ed. (2006), pp. 37, 54, 176","source_display":"Mission Catholique de Joro (Gunu-Gaya), Lexique Musey: Vee ma sem slenana, 5th rev. ed. (2006), pp. 37, 54, 176","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"An oval initiation bullroarer, whirled to make its noises; named for its oval shape.","function_display":"Whirled at initiation to make noises presented as the voices of the initiation divinities.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"musey","display_name":"Do fulla, mother of the Musey initiation","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SUBSAH-018_subsah-018-mundang-frobenius1913-fig3.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SUBSAH-018_subsah-018-mundang-frobenius1913-fig3_thumb.jpg","alt":"Frobenius’s 1913 drawing of a crescent-shaped Mundang gourd blade, with a forked end and braided cord (fig. 3).","credit":"Leo Frobenius, Unter den unsträflichen Äthiopen (1913), p. 191, fig. 3; drawn by B. Bauschke","license":"Public domain in the United States (published 1913); status elsewhere not verified.","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MJYPAQAAMAAJ","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A gourd-shell roarer of the Mundang, the Musey's neighbours.","pool_id":"auto-SUBSAH-018_subsah-018-mundang-frobenius1913-fig3"},"slug":"joro2006-001-musey-moussey"}