{"id":"MEN2007-001","label":"Ngangela kasolo and kahulihuli","people_or_site":"Ngangela","country_current":"Angola","historic_region":"Ngangela country, south-eastern Angola (then Portuguese Angola)","macroregion":"Africa / Southern Africa","local_name":"kasolo; kahulihuli","source_term":"rhombe","source_language":"French","object_description":"Two contrasting blades: kasolo is rectangular, with its cord wound around one end; kahulihuli is long and tapered, pierced at its narrow end for a loose cord.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"men_iii_c_5524_5525_ngangela_rhombes","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://www.men.ch/fileadmin/sites/men/files/Documents/texpos/MEN2007_Retour_d_Angola_Texpo12bis.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 20 (PDF p. 22); inv. III.C.5524, III.C.5525","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Broad Ngangela culture-area anchor in south-eastern Angola (Cuando Cubango / Moxico / south-eastern Bié). The museum records only \"Ngangela, Angola, 1933\" with no village; Vila da Ponte and the Kubango are deliberately not inferred from other objects in the same mission.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Ngangela pair turns contrast into a kind of duet: kasolo is a plain rectangle with its cord wound tight around one end, while kahulihuli narrows into a long taper pierced at the tip.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"kasolo; kahulihuli — Ngangela names for the two instruments; their meanings are unrecorded. rhombe — French for bullroarer.","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":"Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, inv. III.C.5524 (kasolo) and III.C.5525 (kahulihuli), Ngangela, Angola, 1933; Retour d'Angola (MEN, Texpo 12bis), p. 20","url":"https://www.men.ch/fileadmin/sites/men/files/Documents/texpos/MEN2007_Retour_d_Angola_Texpo12bis.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250615033024/https://www.men.ch/fileadmin/sites/men/files/Documents/texpos/MEN2007_Retour_d_Angola_Texpo12bis.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, inv. III.C.5524 (kasolo) and III.C.5525 (kahulihuli), Ngangela, Angola, 1933; Retour d'Angola (MEN, Texpo 12bis), p. 20","source_display":"Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, inv. III.C.5524 (kasolo) and III.C.5525 (kahulihuli), Ngangela, Angola, 1933; Retour d'Angola (MEN, Texpo 12bis), p. 20","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Two contrasting blades: kasolo is rectangular, with its cord wound around one end; kahulihuli is long and tapered, pierced at its narrow end for a loose cord.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"ngangela","display_name":"Ngangela kasolo and kahulihuli","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MEN2007-001_men2007-001-ngangela-kasolo-kahulihuli-x.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MEN2007-001_men2007-001-ngangela-kasolo-kahulihuli-x_thumb.jpg","alt":"Drawing of the Ngangela kasolo and kahulihuli from Angola: a broad rectangular instrument with an inset narrow strip and loose cord above a narrower end-pierced blade with cord.","credit":"Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, III.C.5524 and III.C.5525; Théodore Delachaux drawing, Retour d’Angola, Texpo 12bis, p. 20","license":"Rights reserved (© MEN 2007–12); rehosted for non-commercial research. Historical drawing reproduced in the museum catalogue; no open reuse licence stated.","source_page":"https://www.men.ch/fileadmin/sites/men/files/Documents/texpos/MEN2007_Retour_d_Angola_Texpo12bis.pdf#page=22","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Ngangela kasolo and kahulihuli, Angola, 1933."},"slug":"men2007-001-ngangela"}